Bitter Flight
2018-ongoing
Bitter Flight captures light from Burj El Murr, an unfinished Beirut building whose construction halted with the Civil War in 1975. Once among the tallest, it became a sniper post and detention center. Today, abandoned and too costly to demolish, it remains a home for birds and a relic of conflict.
The work centers a structure whose initial human purpose was never fulfilled, yet lives on as an urban carcass — a marker of a bitter collective memory and a glimpse of a post-human landscape, where architecture is inhabited by other-than-human life.
The images are unique silver gelatin prints made in the artist’s apartment-turned-camera obscura. Drawing in the building’s light, she performatively inverts, fragments, bends and mends its rigid form, rendering it mutable — open to quiet, soft, uncanny renewal.
