Post-Traumatic Art in the City by Isabelle de le Court

Author:Isabelle de le Court
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350194373
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Journeys in time

Traversing generational memories with the moving image in Lamia Joreige’s A Journey (2006)

First, there is the detail of a black-and-white photograph, displaying the face of a young woman leaning towards the large basin of a fountain. Then, the viewer is able to see the whole photograph, a group of young people, men and women, posing on the other side of the basin from the photographer (Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1 Lamia Joreige, Still from the video A Journey, 41 minutes, 2006. © lamiajoreige. Photograph from the Arab Image Foundation / Collection Rose Kettaneh © FAI.

The title of the video appears, A Journey, before the screen turns into black screen. A voice-over, a young woman’s voice says, in French, ‘I decided to make a movie on the family.’ And another voice, of an elderly woman, answers, half in French, half in Arabic: ‘A movie for the family? What for? Why? Some will get angry, others won’t, some will speak.’ While she is talking the screen is displaying a photograph, from probably the same period as the previous one, of a group of women posing in the front of a house. Two elderly women are sitting, facing the camera, one with a young child on her lap, the other with another child standing on an empty chair next to her. Behind them, a young woman is standing, the same woman singled out from the group of young people in the previous photograph (Figure 4.2).

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