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Walid Raad: Excavating Trauma and Memory in the Archive Born in Chbaniyeh, Lebanon, in 1967, Walid Raad’s artistic journey is inextricably linked to the tumultuous history of his homeland – a nation scarred by decades of civil war and political instability. His work isn't simply documentation; it’s an intricate excavation of memory, trauma, and the very act of constructing narratives around conflict. Initially drawn to photography as a young man, influenced by masters like Atget and Cartier-Bresson, Raad quickly recognized the limitations of traditional representation when confronted with Le…
A chart of walid raad's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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