The Last Song, Video Installation , 2024.

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The Last Song is a 2’37’’ video installation in which artist Sirine Fattouh, accompanied by a young girl, sings a patriotic Lebanese song that she herself performed in 1989, during the final months of the Lebanese civil war. This song marks a bittersweet memory of her last day attending school in Beirut, just before they closed indefinitely due to the intensifying conflict. Shortly afterward, Sirine and her family left Lebanon, relocating to France for the next four years.

The young girl was deliberately chosen for her age and origins: like the artist, she was the same age at the time of departure and, like her, has a Syrian mother. Through this parallel, the work evokes memory, displacement, and the emotional echoes of conflict across generations.