Lamia Joreige
Sun & Sea, 2021
Video
17 minutes
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#2/3)
https://vimeo.com/771648524 Password: sun72 In one of Lamia Joreige’s conversations with Etel Adnan filmed between 2013 and 2015, they spoke about their childhood, their parents and the end of the Ottoman...
https://vimeo.com/771648524
Password: sun72
In one of Lamia Joreige’s conversations with Etel Adnan filmed between 2013 and 2015, they spoke about their childhood, their parents and the end of the Ottoman empire, and Joreige asked her what would have happened had King Faisal succeeded in reigning on an independent Arab kingdom and whether she thought it would have lasted. Her answer was: “It might not have worked, but it might have worked. After all, even Lebanon worked, even Iraq exists, even little Syria existed, but it would have been shaky. The problems that Lebanon has, this Arab nation would have had them too. How can you manage such diversity? The Ottoman Empire managed it very well from Constantinople, and accepted this diversity. Nationalism did fire imaginations.“
In an earlier conversion in 2011, Lamia shared with Etel some photographs she had taken during the summer on a Greek island, Adnan admired the photos then asked Joreige to create a video based on her first poem, Sun & Sea, written in French in 1949.
A year later, Lamia returned to Greece and filmed the sea, the sky, the sun, the cliffs, but refused to look at the images and kept postponing this work.
Password: sun72
In one of Lamia Joreige’s conversations with Etel Adnan filmed between 2013 and 2015, they spoke about their childhood, their parents and the end of the Ottoman empire, and Joreige asked her what would have happened had King Faisal succeeded in reigning on an independent Arab kingdom and whether she thought it would have lasted. Her answer was: “It might not have worked, but it might have worked. After all, even Lebanon worked, even Iraq exists, even little Syria existed, but it would have been shaky. The problems that Lebanon has, this Arab nation would have had them too. How can you manage such diversity? The Ottoman Empire managed it very well from Constantinople, and accepted this diversity. Nationalism did fire imaginations.“
In an earlier conversion in 2011, Lamia shared with Etel some photographs she had taken during the summer on a Greek island, Adnan admired the photos then asked Joreige to create a video based on her first poem, Sun & Sea, written in French in 1949.
A year later, Lamia returned to Greece and filmed the sea, the sky, the sun, the cliffs, but refused to look at the images and kept postponing this work.
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