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Since its inception, Saradar Collection has been assembling a searchable digital database that has over 1500 key texts. This comprehensive resource includes press articles, academic essays, theses, books and exhibition catalogues that cover the collection’s artists and artworks as well as Lebanese art in general. A selection of over 500 texts are available online and the full database is accessible by appointment.
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The Atlas Group / Walid Raad : The Atlas of Explosions
2015
Vojtech Marc
Published in Fotografe Magazine, # 27.
Raad presents the results of The Atlas Group as a collective work, attributing joint authorship to several fictitious characters. One of these “contributors” is Dr. Fadl Fakhouri, who among other things is presented as the author of the series Already Been in a Lake of Fire: Notebook Volume 38 (1991/2003), relating to 145 car bomb attacks, of which there were a total of 3641 with 4386 victims during the civil war in Lebanon in the years 1975–1991.1 Highly mobile, readily available and treacherously inconspicuous, car bombs are a deadly war machine symptomatic of current urban warfare, where the line between militias and civilians is itself tactically blurred.
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The projet of the artist from Lebanon exhibited at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin
2006
Kassandra Nakas
Published in Nafas.
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Walid Raad Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
2016
Susan Noyes Platt
Published in Arts and Politics Now.
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Anywhere or Not at All : Philosophy of Contemporary Art
2013
Peter Osborne
Published by Verso. Excerpts from the chapters 3, 5 and 7.
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. What kind of discourse can help us give it a critical sense? Anywhere or Not At All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Setting out the claim that ‘contemporary art is postconceptual art’, the book elaborates a series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of works by Navjot Altaf, the Atlas Group, Amar Kanwar, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gerhard Richter and Robert Smithson, among others. It concludes with new accounts of the institutional and existential complexities of ‘art space’ and ‘art time’. Anywhere or Not At All maps out the conceptual coordinates for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism.
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Walid Raad, "Scratching on Things I Could Disavow : A History of Art in the Arab World"
2010
Irène Panzani
Published in Marges.
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a project by Suheil Bachar
2002
Walid Raad
Published in the exhibition catalogue Tamass Contemporay Arab Representations Beirut/Lebanon 1.
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Index XXVI - Artists
2011
Walid Raad
From the catalogue Walid Raad, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow : A History of Art in the Arab World, published by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
Small text about Index XXVI, a part of the project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.
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Section 139: The Atlas Group (1989-2004)
2014
Walid Raad
Published in e-flux journal #51
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Index XXVI: Red
2014
Walid Raad
Published in E-flux journal # 54
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Slippery Delays and Optical Mysteries : The Work of Walid Raad
2015
Eva Respini
Excerpt of a text from the catalogue The Atlas Group - Scratching on Things I could Disavow, published by The Museum of Modern Art.
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Forging History, Performing memory: Walid Ra'ad’s Atlas Project
2002
Sarah Rogers
Published in Parachute Art Journal.
This article looks closely at Walid Raad’s The Atlas Project within the historical context of the Lebanese civil war and considers the performance of memory in the construction of narrative form.
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Walid Raad
2016
David J. Roxburgh
Published in Artforum.
Even as the field was engaged in methodical self-criticism, however, it was responding to fast-paced and largely market-driven developments in the art world-a dynamic that exemplified tensions within the broader, discipline-wide effort to construct a truly global art history. [...]while his work might investigate subjects or themes pertaining to the Middle East, it never privileges his own national, ethnic, or religious identity, nor does it ground its authority in older forms of regional artistic production (a popular tactic that generally mobilizes problematic notions of authenticity in the production of a "modern-traditional" style).
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