Artist
Walid Raad
b. 1967 · Lebanese-American
Walid Raad examines the Lebanese wars, museums, archives and the politics of cultural memory through photography, video, installation and lecture-performance. The Atlas Group, his long-running fictional archive, blurred documentary fact and invention to question how violence becomes historical evidence.
Photography; video; installation; lecture-performance
Major Works
- 1989–2004The Atlas Group →
- 2001My Neck Is Thinner than a Hair →
- 1998–2006Let’s Be Honest, the Weather Helped →
- 1987 onwardSweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut) →
- 2007 onwardScratching on Things I Could Disavow →
- 2009Walkthrough →
- 2002I Only Wish That I Could Weep →
- 1999Already Been in a Lake of Fire →
- 2006We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask →
- 2008Preface to the First Edition →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
