You, Syria, locked in your solitude
Me, trapped in my liberty
Isn't it true that man destroys what he builds?
Overwhelmed by hatred and vengeance
The urge to rule and to be measured by God
The origin of evil, a battlefield
Goes may be to eternity, to the Epic of Giligamesh
Isn't it about time for a second flood ?
Me, trapped in my liberty
Isn't it true that man destroys what he builds?
Overwhelmed by hatred and vengeance
The urge to rule and to be measured by God
The origin of evil, a battlefield
Goes may be to eternity, to the Epic of Giligamesh
Isn't it about time for a second flood ?
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Over The Cliff 2008 - 2012
12 C-prints
45 x 30 cm
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![“The Airport gate image represents the moment when you reach the point of no return, when you think you are jumping into freedom only to find out that you are trapped in the vicious circle of your past and your present, this constant out of place that you always try to escape from. Isn’t liberty another human illusion?”](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8ed1d6009940997456b8d8a70cde7b5fa9c369dd82c010e9ad3e2274c2120fd/over_teh-_cliff-12.jpg)
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I worked on this series of photographs between 2008 - 2012 during my periodical visits to my parents, who still live in Damascus.
The choice of a big format was imposed by my strong desire to unveil and expose these scenes suffocated by a complex history and marked by the mixed traces of humans and nature's survival.
As I was reading these pictures, they revealed to me the exterior look that I have for Syria: a certain detachment emptied from feelings and memories, a huge rocky mountain consisting of distance and time separating one from the other.
The photographs reveal the absence, the loss of forms and signs, a desperate measure to be detached from history. They are far away from historical imaginations, buried under the darkness of silence, cry out they mournning of bygone ages, civilizations and ancient glories.