In his latest exhibition, “Letters to the Reader,” Walid Raad continues an eight-year project titled Scratching on things I could disavow. In a series of 11 painted and laser cut wooden panels, Raad constructs ghostly interiors, relying on the absence of an image. Each panel represents the gallery of a museum in Lebanon, complete with reconstructed parquet flooring and mouldings, where Raad observed that each painting did not project a shadow. Here, Raad reconstructs where those shadows might have been, while intimating aesthetic connections to the ongoing political turmoil in the Arab world.
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