Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
Please note: No photography or video recording is permitted at this event.
As part of the Stammering Circle exhibition program, artist Walid Raad will give a talk followed by a public Q&A. Known for his rigorous engagement with questions of history, violence, and representation, Raad’s work examines how traumatic events—particularly war—reshape both individual and collective experience. His projects often blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, addressing the complexities of memory, authorship, and truth through archival practices, performative lectures, and mixed-media installations. Central to the conversation will be The Atlas Group (1989–2004), Raad’s long-term body of work that reconstructs the recent history of Lebanon through a fictional foundation. Drawing on real and imagined documents, this project explores how narrative, testimony, and form can both reveal and conceal experiences of war. Rather than offering direct depictions of violence, Raad’s work often stages what cannot be seen—what is hidden, repressed, or displaced—and where such traces might find refuge.
Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbanieh, Lebanon) has presented work at major international venues including Documenta, the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial. Solo exhibitions include MoMA New York, Museo Reina Sofia, ICA Boston, Whitechapel Gallery, and Hamburger Bahnhof. His works are held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum, Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Whitney Museum. He currently teaches at Bard College, New York.
The talk will be held in English, with simultaneous translation available on site.