Walid Raad /The Atlas Group: v. I

Walid Raad produces performances, videos and photographs. He founded "The Atlas Group" in 1999, a fictitious archive consisting of lectures, documentaries and installations about the civil war in Lebanon. He has thus created an alternative world, although the texts and picture material he employs is in conventional format. This enables Raad to portray the conflict in Lebanon not as a siccession of historical facts but rather as abstract composition of memories and media reports. In "The Fakhouri File" Walid Raad documents the historical figure of Dr. Fadi Fakhouri, a leading Lebanese historian of the civil war up till his death in 1998, through the medium of notebooks, videos and photographs.