| The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group ArchiveJanuary 7, 2006- March 11, 2006
Curated by Debra Singer
The Kitchen is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by Walid Raad, titled The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive. The exhibition includes video projections, digital prints, and two performance-lectures, which are all components of the artist’s ongoing venture, The Atlas Group. As the name of both a project and a foundation, The Atlas Group researches and documents the contemporary history of Lebanon, with a particular emphasis both on the wars from 1975 to 1991, and on the consequences of war more broadly on life in cities such as Beirut, New York, Madrid, London, and Baghdad. Presenting a collection of photographic and video documents on subjects as varied as car bombs, horse racing, and captivity, The Atlas Group explores the ways that experiences of violence are formed, represented, and remembered.
Reviews of The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group ArchiveVillage Voice
February 10, 2006 | | Jerry Saltz | | "...Yet for all his pseudo-scientific esotericism and his ultra-educated post-structuralism, Raad (or at least his character) is a textbook romantic: a man in search of the miraculous, a knight-errant taken with political intrigue, social estrangement, and emptiness—someone preoccupied with connections and affinities, real or not...." |
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