Tag Archives: Rabih Mroué

Walid Raad’s witness protection program

Who is Suha Traboulsi? Jerry Saltz once wrote that Walid Raad’s work was like a “communiqué from a secret agent.” Isn’t it more like a witness protection program fabricating new identities around ones lost to historical disadvantage? … [Read More…]

Documentary Uncertainty

Within a structure that resembles an itinerary, with an introduction as check in and section headings outlining three different potential departure plans, T.J. Demos sets out, in The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, to chart the relationship between art, documentary, and a post-1989 global economy… [Read More…]