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Exhibitions of 2024: Walid Raad’s “Another Festival of (In)gratitude”

Exhibitions of 2024: Walid Raad’s “Another Festival of (In)gratitude”
Installation view of WALID RAAD’s The loudest muttering is over, 2024, VW Beetle, car cover, blue tarps, collage images, dimensions variable. Courtesy Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg.

Aug 7–Jan 4, 2025
Walid Raad: “Another Festival of (In)gratitude”
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Walid Raad’s “Another Festival of (In)gratitude” opened, shuttered, and reopened amid Israeli attacks in Lebanon. In his conceptual projects (often attributed to imaginary collaborators), Raad invents documents of Lebanese history that comprise videos, photographs, sculptures, and installations.

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