New Types of Memories in Lebanese Art

Colombian-born, Paris-based Camila Salame, who is showing her work next to Hodeib’s, uses an entirely different aesthetic to reflect on experiences of displacement brought about by the war. For her sculptural installation, titled “Hypochondria of the Heart” (2013), she made a series of miniature model homes, built from paper, cardboard, fabric and beeswax. Each home is placed in a fantastical and uncanny context: two lie inside tall glass bells on top of long, whirling locks of hair; another is set in a clay pot of Colombian wild grass and suitably titled “In Spite of Time, Planted House”; and in “Sweet Memory, House on Honey,” the house is placed inside a half-full honey jar. Salame turns the idea of a home into a personal, constantly reimagined one that can be carried around with us wherever we go.