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The water is cool in the café
Bilal Khbeiz
The Water is cool in the café exhibits a series of short texts printed on postcards. These 19 postcards are complete in and of themselves with no need for either a sender or a receiver. They carry, as they ought to, an image that is known in public, and texts that are complete and intimate. Khbeiz’s writing, incoherent and self-involved, is a form of “horizontal writing” that makes pronouncements at random and without concern or desire to mobilize its reader in any political way.
Date: | 2000 |
Location: | Colisée and Strand Theater, Hamra, Lebanon |
Medium: | Publication |
Material: | Postcards, text |
Section: | Contemporary |
Duration: | Temporary |
Tags: | Displayed in public |
Framework: | Hamra Street Project |
Authorizations: | Municipality of Beirut |
Commissioner: | Ashkal Alwan |