New episode of the Houda Kassatly, 365 photographs cycle

It’s no coincidence that the city of硅藻土in Lebanon is a “plural city”, as mentioned in the title of the third episode in the cycle of exhibitions called “Houda Kassatly, 365 photographs” -在线的- organized by the贝鲁特的爱丽丝摩加舞艺术画廊. With Phoenician origins, from the Greeks to the Ottomans, through the Romans, Persians, Crusaders and Mamluks, the great conquerors of the history of the Levant all took on Trablous al Sham - Tripoli - which successively became a Roman province, a Byzantine metropolis, Persian satrapy, Crusader county, Mamluk jund and Ottoman wilaya. Over the centuries, Tripoli has been embellished with many a civil and religious monument, worthy of the importance of the city.
From its glorious past, Tripoli has kept this cosmopolitan liveliness, embodied in a city where religions, cultures, ethnicities and traditions meet and embrace each other. The “second capital of Lebanon” has obviously suffered through the country’s turbulent history, marked by many civil wars.
正是这座城市在摄影师讲述的摄影故事中出现Houda Kassatly. Born in Beirut, with a degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne and a PhD in ethnology and comparative sociology, she has dedicated her professional life to research and photography. Her training in ethnology has sharpened her专注于社会传统，建筑遗产，环境和日常生活and it goes hand in hand with photography, which she has been practising and perfecting since her teens, making her the first female artist-photographer in Lebanon.
In this third part of the cycle,Houda Kassatly, 365 photographs在贝鲁特的爱丽丝·摩加舞画廊（Alice Mogabgab Gallery），该画廊全年将2020年全年致力于艺术家的作品，摄影师回顾了复数体系结构，知识和生活手工艺品以及多侧的多种风味。#raybet官网通过1990年至2020年之间拍摄的41张照片，并首次展示，在线展览提出了反映城市，现在和未来的记忆.
Heir to great architectural, human and cultural riches, Tripoli “one of the jewels of history and coexistence”, is today struggling with the present; one where the few tourism projects designed to attract visitors to historic districts hardly hide the social, urban, economic and human disaster of the suburbs, fuelled by all kinds of traffic.
In the first exhibition, which was held in the gallery in Beirut, “Dalieh the Threatened Shore” hundreds of snapshots of the Raouche Rocks covered the walls to tell the story of the water pollution and human destruction of natural landscapes. The second exhibition“Refugee’s Camps in Lebanon, the Unsustainable Precarity”, was also held on online, from 14 April to 23 May. This time showcased a collection of 100 photos taken between 2012 and 2019 in the Palestinian refugee camps of Burg al-Barajneh (near Beirut), Nahr al-Bared (near Tripoli), and in the camps that took in displaced Syrians near Bekaa (in eastern Lebanon). This third one will be followed in September by “神圣的树木，牺牲的树木”和十一月Beirut, the Iconography of an Absence” to complete the critical and artistic vision of Houda Kassatly, an artist who for 30 years has been photographing and documenting the heritage and environment of Lebanon with her unique style.

Christiane Bürklein

展览: Tripoli of the Orient, Plural City
由Houda Kassatly
from 23 June to 30 July
在黎巴嫩贝鲁特的爱丽丝摩加舞画廊在线
Link:https://alicemogabgabgallery.com/tripoli-of-the-orient-plural-city/
Images: Houda Kassatly