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The Atlas Group/Walid Raad
Sweet Talk: The Hilwe Commission 1991-2005 (Hilwe)
inkjet print, 4 x 4 feet
courtesy: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
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The Atlas Group was a project undertaken by Walid Raad between 1990 and 2004 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the wars of 1975 to 1991. Raad found and produced audio, visual and literary documents that shed light on this history. The documents were preserved in The Atlas Group Archive, which is located in Beirut and New York and is organized in three types of categories: [cat.A] refers to documents Raad attributed to named characters; [cat.FD] stands for documents attributed to anonymous individuals or institutions [cat.AGP] is the abbreviation for documents attributed to The Atlas Group itself. This exhibition brings together a selection of documents from the archive including photographs from the series titled Sweet Talk as well as a videotape titled We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask.
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