The Colour Remains the Same

“The Colour Remains the Same” recalls into question the artist’s experiences in Beirut this past summer by employing a cell phone camera as a possible, yet unreliable witness. The video installation in two parts, composed of the artist’s personal archive, examine the common aesthetics of spaces of celebration and conflict, the artist’s position as a diasporic figure at the moment of re-encounter of trauma, and present an unstable set of possibilities ranging from the tracing of a path across a city, the aftermath of a catastrophic event, an interpersonal negotiation, and the roving eye of a cell phone fixed to a searching body. The video is an extension of a text-based work published as The Colour Remains the Same.