Missing Lebanese Wars, Linguistic
1996 - Photography (Photography)
112 x 127 cm
The Atlas Group
It is a little known fact that Lebanese historians were also gamblers during the war. They met every Sunday at the race courses. Race after race, the historians were positioned behind the press photographers who were there to take a picture of the winning horse passing the finishing line. The historians betted on how many fractions of seconds before or after passing the line the photograph would be taken. That is to say that no photo showed the horse on the finishing line. Each page of the notebook contains an image of the horse passing the finish line cut out of the Annahar newspaper on the following day. It features the annotations of doctor Fakhouri on the length and duration of the race, on the winning horse and his timing, his average speed, the initials of the different historians and their bets, the time between the snapshot and the passage of the finishing line, a very brief description of the winning historian (here the linguist). These documents provoke questions about historical fact. Why are there no images of the precise moment when the horse passes the finishing line? Does the press authorize the reproduction of false information? Conscious of the impossibility of capturing the exact moment, the historians bet not on the horses but on the photographer’s margin of error. The evidence about an event is not necessarily linked to the production of an objective document. There can be no certain objectivity with photographic material.
The Atlas Group is a research and artistic project founded by Lebanese artist Walid Raad in 1999. Presented as an archive project, The Atlas Group aims to investigate the boundaries between document and fiction, history and memory, discourse and experience. Through its different series, it questions historiographical processes in regards to one’s perception of time, space and events; manipulates vernacular images and archival documents to compose alternative narratives of Lebanon’s history, with an emphasis on the Lebanese wars of 1975 and 1990. The Atlas Group has been critically acclaimed and internationally praised for questioning the versatility and categorization of art forms, its capacity to serve a political and historical purpose, and to challenge notions of authority in the writing of History.
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