In human
imagination, cities often represent spaces of dreams, lingering between
nostalgia, desire and fears. The works of the exhibition City Symphony refer to the city as a space of opportunities,
opportunities that now seem lost. Mayye Zayed’s video Iskandaria (2012) presents a kaleidoscope of found footage from
older films, all set in Alexandria, a city that symbolizes a cosmopolitan,
urban identity, now lost forever. Siska’s multi-media installation E.D.L.
explores the ideal of progress and modernism inherent in the building of the
Lebanese electricity company. Both works examine an aspect of a city’s past,
thereby questioning the contrasting present and the factors involved in its
decline.
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