Excavating Images on the Border

摘要

This text considers the function of the photographic image, both analogue and digital, in the multimedia interventions of the Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari. Instead of reading Zaatari's work through the commonplace tropes provided by the rhetoric of documentary and archival appropriations, it focuses on generating more spatially and temporally dynamic epistemologies in order to better theorise the complexities of imagistic representation during times of war.