BEIRUT, RECURRING DREAM
2021 - ongoing

Beirut, Recurring Dream inhabits a city that exists between reality and imagination - lived, remembered, and continuously re-staged in the mind. Beirut appears not as a fixed geography, but as a shifting scenario, fractured by war and exile yet still capable of seducing and renewing itself.

I left Beirut in 1983 during the civil war, carrying fragments: checkpoints, the scent of the sea, orange blossom in the air. Decades later, I returned to a city both familiar and estranged, layered with histories I had not witnessed but somehow carried within me.

The work navigates this tension between past and present, memory and reality. Beirut emerges not as documentary truth, but as a stage where imagination fills the gaps of history - where images collapse reality and fiction into one, and the city persists as both dream and lived experience.