FLOOD
FLOOD
by Anouch Basbous
FLOOD
2-channel video installation • 5:00 • France, Lebanon • English, French
What constitutes a memory, and what alters it over time?
In Flood, Anouch Basbous returns to a visit to a cemetery located in an industrial area on the outskirts of Beirut. The two-channel video centres on an encounter with a strange body of water seen between two concrete walls. When the artist returned to the site a year later, the water had disappeared. The account of this unsettling memory unfolds through text, written in the third person, establishing a distance that allows the event to be revisited without verifying or repairing it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Anouch Basbous (she/her) (1999) is an artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Marseille. In 2021 she directed the short essay film Hatef Sada, which was screened in several international film festivals. Her work unfolds between Marseille and Lebanon, where she questions our relationship to fantasy and imagination in a world marked by contemporary necropolitics, inviting other worlds and invisible presences to haunt her process in order to envision collective forms of emancipation. In parallel, she works as an editor, a tool she uses as a space for experimentation and resistance to dominant narrative systems.
