Bullet Lights from Beirut to Brooklyn
My ‘Bullet Lights’ proposal is on show in Brooklyn at Spring as part of the exhibition “a matter of Life or Death” . I conceived the idea when I visited Beirut together with Archis in November 2006 and posted it on the Unbuilt blog through which it received a lot of attention.
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All across Beirut you can find walls covered with bullets holes. Reminders of past violence, conflict and war. Moving through the city they are an all too familiar backdrop for any urban scene. This proposal that I called ‘bullet lights’ is reversing the meaning and experience of the ‘bullet hole wallpaper’ at diverse locations in the city. Introducing unexpected poetic moments of beauty. Beauty, ambivalently mixed with the physical testimonies of violence. The project doesn’t want to make a point it just invites people to look at things differently. Seeing things from more than one perspective is the starting point for empathy.
Beirut, November 28, 2006
a matter of LIFE OR DEATH curated by Anna Cosentino & Steve Butcher
speaks of urgency, survival, decisions and choices - some dark, some light and those that offer solutions for better living
October & November 2008
Spring
126a Front Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
