Lost and Won (Perdu / Gagné), Two-channel video installation + 100 Polaroid portraits, Lebanon, 2008.
Production: Ville de Pantin, Festival Photos et Légendes, France.
In the aftermath of the 2006 war, Sirine Fattouh travelled across Lebanon to meet and film 100 women from various regions and backgrounds. To each, she asked two questions: “What did you gain?” and “What did you lose?”
Filmed in just one month, often in precarious conditions, this project gives space to personal stories often silenced in public discourse. The result is a two-channel video installation (90 min each), accompanied by 100 Polaroid portraits. The videos are in Arabic, subtitled in French, with the first video also available with English subtitles.
By shifting intimate voices into the public sphere, the work reveals how memory, pain, and resilience intersect. It also reflects the artist’s own fractured identity, shaped by displacement and war. This collective archive stands as a quiet resistance to forgetting, and a tribute to the lived experiences of women in Lebanon.