JOREIGE & HADJITHOMAS – IN SITU
Rewind /fast forward
The territory on which we stand trembles, wavers, collapses?
Intense temporal and spatial collisions, continuities and discontinuities, everything is upside down. The past on the surface and the present well buried, the future untraceable?
Rupture, catastrophe, we wait for regeneration.
Then we scrutinize the world under our feet.
An aborted space museum under a heliport in a modernist international fair in Tripoli, Lebanon, built by Oscar Niemeyer but left unfinished.
A mythical Roman city, extraordinarily preserved, a mini-Pompei buried under a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, which reappears on the surface before disappearing again.
An underground survey revealing that a 45 meter high mountain is nothing but the accumulation of 25 years of techno-fossils waste.
Possible and sometimes postponed stories, secret stories, waiting, for those who still need to believe.