Des représentations de l’histoire et de la mémoire dans l’art contemporain au Liban

Introduction

“…The absence of shared collective memory has given rise to intense artistic and militant activities (through associations on behalf of the missing persons) [Elias, 2018]. The Atlas Group created by Walid Raad, for example, blends fiction and reality in hundreds of documents about the civil war, some of which are original and partly created by the artist [Bellan, 2007;Baumann, 2019a & b]. Problems of gender and desire have also been the focus of interdisciplinary collaborations.…”

“…Creativity can also be observed in artistic responses to still-underprocessed memories of the Lebanese civil war. Artists have borrowed ideas related to memory, archives, and truthful/fictional narratives in attempting to make sense of the past [Bellan, 2007]. The fact that Lebanese society remains haunted by memories of the war has also inspired a significant wave of scholarly studies that peaked in 2010 [Mermier & Varin, 2010;Haugbølle, 2010;Volk, 2010].…”