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REBIRTH LEBANON 14TH DEC - EXHIBITION OF LEBANESE ARTISTS
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Curator Lara Mansour describes the Rebirth Lebanon exhibition at the Dazed Gallery as a ‘spontaneous emotional response’ to the events of the summer. A summer which saw a country that has worked hard to rebuild itself as a progressive cultural mosaic of the Middle East widely perceived once again as a place of violence, division and cyclical conflict, all within a matter of days.

Lebanon’s civil infrastructure was torn to shreds and thousands of people were displaced in a bloody assault upon the region that followed the capture of two Israeli soldiers buy the Hizbollah, a response that some world leaders described as hugely disproportionate. It was the worst violence the region has seen since the darkest days of the civil war and the Israeli invasion of 1982 in which the late Ariel Sharon was implicated in the massacre of Palestinian civilians in the camps of Sabra and Shantila.

Now with the current demonstrations against Fouad Siniora’s government threatening to plunge the region into yet another civil war Lara wants her exhibition to divert attention away from religion and politics, to negate some popular held misconceptions about Lebanese culture and give a platform to the diverse talent and creativity contained therein. Art, she believes, in its secular way can genuinely help to bridge divides, “Tolstoy said ‘Art like speech is a means of communication - whereas by words a man transmits his thoughts to another, by means of art he transmits his feelings’ it is precisely those feelings that need to be communicated to unite the Lebanese people.â€