Gallery 825/LAAA

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Gallery 825/LAAA is proud to present Video 825



untitled part 1: everything and nothing

2001, video, 42 minutes

by Jayce Salloum



November 15, 2001, 8:00pm 9:00pm



"everything and nothing" is an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth

between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject with Soha

Bechara, an ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter, in her Paris dorm room

after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation center (S.

Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation.

Revisiting notions of resistance, survival and will, recounting

to death, separation and closeness; the overexposed image and body of a

surviving martyr speaking quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed

against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance

between the subject and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.