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INTRODUCTION
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ONLINE EXHIBITION
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ONSITE EXHIBITIONS
Thessaloniki
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale
Sep, 2011
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A new display “Between Belonging and Martyrdom” was conceived for the Thessaloniki Biennale in 2011, titled "A Rock and a Hard Place", curated by Paolo Colombo (Italy), Mahita El Bacha Urieta (Lebanon/Spain) and Marina Fokidis (Greece).

This display brings together two persistent themes in Lebanon’s wartime posters: Belonging and Martyrdom. While posters of the former articulate the ideological motivations of the warring factions—competing discourses and antagonistic imaginaries of the nation, the community and the threatening enemy— martyr posters on the other hand proclaim that these imaginaries were very ‘real’ to those who died in their cause. Each poster repeatedly asserts the death of a person: you see the face, read the name, date of birth and passing.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Signs of Conflict exhibition traces the deployment of political discourse in visual culture characteristic of Lebanon’s wartime conflict(s). It examines the political posters that were produced by the various warring factions, political parties and movements in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. It is premised upon the idea that the posters unfold the narratives of the prevailing political conflicts while providing insights into modern Arab visual culture.

Lebanon’s civil war is a complex case where local socio-economic and sectarian struggles, linked with regional politics, characterized political discourses and distinguished the numerous warring factions. That, in turn, materialized in the production of an equally complex plethora of political posters, with antagonistic discursive frameworks, conflicting significations, as well as distinct aesthetic practices.

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