The Absent Album
2010 - 2015 | Photographic series | 51 x 52.5 cm each
The Absent Album, Exhibition view, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, 2016
The Absent Album, Exhibition view, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, 2016
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
"The Absent Album" is a series of 100 blown-up polaroid photographs of scenes from Egyptian films. Acting as replacement mechanisms, the shots recreate family settings and memorable moments of the artist's personal life. Throughout the duration of the civil war in Lebanon, he and his family were forced to move from place to place, which often resulted in the loss or destruction of cherished family photo albums. In this desperate situation, Egyptian cinema transformed itself into a factory of images, which the artist used to manufacture and fill-in the gaps of his paperless memories. Here, the polaroid behaves like the instant medium typical in familial settings, but it also simultaneously contradicts that intimate quality with mass produced cinematic subjects.
Exhibition views - A Feeling in Perspective - photos by Musthafa Aboobacker
Exhibition views - Akademie der Künste der Welt - photos by Alfred Jansen
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Archival ink jet on archival fine art paper, 51 x 52.5 cm
The Absent Album, Exhibition view, Akademie der Künste der Welt, 2015
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