Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh & Rozenn Quéré: Possible and Imaginary LivesCombining family photographs and

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh & Rozenn Quéré: Possible and Imaginary LivesCombining family photographs and photomontage, this work depicts, with irony and tenderness, the gap between reality and fantasy with the history of Lebanon in the background. Small images taken from family albums are retouched, creating a new photographic archive tinged with fiction. Memory, history and contemporary art merge delicately into one another in this imaginative work. via concoursArtist Statement on Book Project: This is the story of four strong and feisty women, exiled to the four corners of the globe; four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who have travelled through the history of the twentieth century.It is a story somewhere between documentary and fiction, biography and drama, based on family photographs, interviews – both actual and imagined events.Several gatherings, sifting and listening made stories and words emerge, that were then recreated in the present in the most vivid way possible by combining the inner experiences of these women to the lived experience of the gatherings. Herein is a reinterpretation of reality tinged with tenderness and humour. The four women’s and the authors’ imagination is at the core of this work.Jocelyn, the eldest sister, lived in Cairo. Frieda, the youngest, went into exile to Paris. Stella left Lebanon at the time of the civil war for New York, and her twin Graziella is the only one who has remained in Beirut.This story called into play images of invented memories, and sometimes defective memories brought up a doubt of what was invented, the memories or the photographs?Far from being a factual portrayal of Graziella and her sisters, ‘Vies possibles et imaginaires’ is an attempt to translate the eccentricities and the imagination of these women so as to give their imaginings the same status as reality. In other words, combining old family photographs and text did not aim at writing their story, but at writing their myth.Winning project of the Vevey International Photography Award, realised with the support of Festival Images (Vevey/Switzerland). It is published by Editions Photosynthèse (Arles/France). via recontres -- source link

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