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Book design of ” The Dialogue that is Us” by Tony Chakar, Lebanon–2013.
In 17th century Europe, “emblem books” were quite common, and they mainly spoke of the end of things, of a failed world and its defeats. Everything became an allegory, where the image was not an illustration of the text and the text was not a caption for the image.
The Dialogue That Is Us takes emblem books as its point of departure: from the wreckage of History, images are seized and transformed into allegories that illuminate the present of a world (the Arab World) that did not produce them. But then again, in the wreckage of History, strange affinities arise form between things, no matter how remote.
links
http://ashkalalwan.org/events/book-launch/,
http://sharjahart.org/biennial/sharjah-biennial-11/calendar-events/20-april-2013/the-space-of-nun
collaboration
PenguinCube–Lebanon
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Book design of ” The Dialogue that is Us” by Tony Chakar, Lebanon–2013.
In 17th century Europe, “emblem books” were quite common, and they mainly spoke of the end of things, of a failed world and its defeats. Everything became an allegory, where the image was not an illustration of the text and the text was not a caption for the image.
The Dialogue That Is Us takes emblem books as its point of departure: from the wreckage of History, images are seized and transformed into allegories that illuminate the present of a world (the Arab World) that did not produce them. But then again, in the wreckage of History, strange affinities arise form between things, no matter how remote.
links
http://ashkalalwan.org/events/book-launch/,
http://sharjahart.org/biennial/sharjah-biennial-11/calendar-events/20-april-2013/the-space-of-nun
collaboration
PenguinCube–Lebanon
