24 hour Lebanon, Part of Unpredictable Times, video installation, Lebanon, 2023.

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24 Hour Lebanon is a silent, durational video installation with a total runtime of 24 hours. Filmed between 2018 and 2021, the work assembles the full archive of footage recorded by the artist during her last years living in Lebanon, before leaving the country in 2021 after five years of residence. All the rushes—captured spontaneously, often with a Dash Cam mounted in her car—have been edited sequentially and accelerated, compressing three years into a single continuous day.

This piece shares its raw material with Behind the Shield and Fragments, two video works that each reframe this visual archive through specific narratives and sound. In contrast, 24 Hour Lebanon resists narrative structure. Stripped of sound and left unfiltered, it becomes a vast, silent stream of images—an accumulation of lived time, movement, and observation. Without commentary, voice, or music, the video immerses the viewer in a visual overload that mirrors the intensity, exhaustion, and beauty of a country in flux.

More than a document, 24 Hour Lebanon acts as a final gesture—a personal epilogue to the artist’s years in Beirut. It marks the end of a chapter, offering not a conclusion, but a durational trace of presence, displacement, and the impossibility of closure.