Ruin in the City

Initially a workshop lead by Spanish artist Lara Almercegui and Swedish curator Cecilia Anderson and organized by the ’98weeks’ association, "Ruin in the City" culminated in a one day guerilla exhibition in a large old appartment in Beirut's Sanayeh district. For my project, I spent a few hours everyday for 3 days in an abandoned house in Beirut and the wild garden around it, creating a mini-ritual, trying to listen to it, to observe it, and eventually to capture its unlikely heartbeat and its echo from the city around it, through images and sound. The resulting work is an installation in a small intimate bathroom chamber in an old Lebanese appartment, a derelict room containing a showerhead, normal tiled floor, half ceramic half concrete walls, and a water heater. Video from the installation:http://www.youtube.com/user/Cristobalez#p/a/u/0/IqK0jnJu2lA Documentation:http://ninetyeightweeks.ning.com/photo/albums/welcome-to-my-space-ship