At Beirut exhibit, Lebanese explore their capital’s past

Sept 20 (Reuters) – Lebanese artists, journalists and researchers have created a multidisciplinary exhibition within the historic constructing of Beit Beirut, revisiting the previous of the town and exploring their relationship with Beirut right now.

The director of the “Allo, Beirut?” exhibition, Delphine Abirached Darmency, is a Franco-Lebanese journalist. She got here up with the thought after she found the archives of Jean Prosper Homosexual-Para, proprietor of the once-famous Les Caves du Roy nightclub.

Darmency labored with numerous journalists and researchers to rebuild the historical past of Beirut’s golden age from these archives, highlighting the Nineteen Sixties of the Lebanese capital, “but in addition in a vital and analytical manner, to know what occurred throughout this era that led as much as a civil battle in 1975,” curator Roy Dib mentioned.

The exhibit reconstructs some scenes of the Lebanese capital’s pre-civil battle days, alongside images, movies, and artwork installations.

“We would like this area to belong to the folks of Beirut… we needed the exhibition, immersive, interactive, to really feel you might be included in it,” mentioned Darmency.

“Allo, Beirut?” opened on Sept. 15 and is scheduled to run till 2023.

Reporting by Emilie Madi and Yara Abi Nader; Writing by Aurora Ellis; Modifying by Rosalba O’Brien

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