Museum Exhibit: "Due to Unforeseen Events..."

The New Museum's exhibit, "Due to Unforeseen Events..." gives viewers a detailed background into contemporary artwork in Lebanon that has been altered from its original design. These pieces and stories question the censorship due to the politics in Lebanon. The exhibit includes work from the following artists: Ziad Abillama, Tony Chakar, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroué, and Kirsten Scheid.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are film makers who had to modify "A Perfect Day" in 2005. A picture selected to depict the main character's father who was kidnapped during the Lebanese Civil War was of a man who died several years prior and his wife wished for the scene to be removed.

In 2009 they used this story to create a leacture-performance measuring the difference between recognition and representation. The image below is of the man used in that film questioning "... the seen and unseen, the hidden, the perceived, and the obliterated as multiple

layers of meaning and history." -Joana Hadjithomas.