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Distant Divides. Zwischen Libanon und Deutschland

Topic: Exhibitions
Periods:
  • 2022/04/30 — 2022/08/28
Artists:
  • Mahmoud Dabdoub
  • Emmanuel Guiragossian
  • Franziska Pierwoss
  • Ghassan Salhab
  • Siska
  • Paola Yacoub
  • Etel Adnan
  • Hiba Alansari & Mahmoud Alansari
  • Nour Sokhon & Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus
  • Chaza Charafeddine
  • Fouad Elkoury
  • Gilbert Hage
  • Mohamad Kanaan
  • Arthur Laidlaw
  • Zad Moultaka
  • A.R. Penck
Art historian and curator Clementine Butler-Gallie provides insight into the exhibition Distant Divides. Between Lebanon and Germany, which took place in Halle 14 on the grounds of the Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig.
Interview with Clementine Butler-Gallie in Leipzig, 25.05.2022

Based on an encounter with photographer Mahmoud Dabdoub, art historian and curator Clementine Butler-Gallie has been working since 2016 on the ongoing project Distant Divides, which traces stories about German-Lebanese relations. As part of the project, Butler-Gallie has brought together various artists in an exhibition who have approached the subject in different ways. What they have in common is an engagement with the experience of divided worlds – like that of the Wall between East- and West-Berlin or the Green Line in Beirut. Frequently, these political events and experiences were the reason which led people to leave their own places of residence. In a broad variety of media, the works bear witness to the similarities and differences of the very individual experiences of moving to the Federal Republic of Germany or the GDR, or to Lebanon.

Clementine Butler-Gallie: introductory text to the newspaper publication as part of the Distant Divides research project, 2020
Source: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d42cece1ee67a0001b81ae3/t/5f89649e5af00f1b3c78ac44/1602839711589/Distant-Divides-Newspaper+%28dragged%29.pdf

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