Fragments, Part of Unpredictable Times, Five Screen Video and Sound Installation, Lebanon, France, 2024.
Fragments was selected by the patronage commission of la Fondation des Artistes, which gave it its support.
Fragments is a five-channel video and sound installation filmed with a dashcam inside the artist’s car in Lebanon between 2018 and 2020.
The work is closely related to Behind the Shield yet shifts away from narration and spoken language. No voice is heard. The installation unfolds as a continuous visual and sonic composition. Filmed from a fixed position behind the windshield, the camera records a journey through the city and its outskirts. The montage gradually transforms the space: streets empty, rhythms slow down, and the city becomes increasingly suspended and unsettled.
Two original soundtracks shape different temporal and emotional experiences, reinforcing a growing sense of tension. Rather than showing the event itself, Fragments remains in what precedes it—a state of anticipation in which the city is already changing.
In collaboration with sound artist Jean-Jacques Palix and Nour Sokhon.