Abandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut Fiction and makes her own art

and makes her own art by the tenet of "Availabilism" to use whatever’s around

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Abandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut Fiction and makes her own artOver the past 150 years, Beirut has witnessed a cycle of unbridled growth, war, economic and social crises, and migratory movements. It is in this territory ceaselessly destroyed and rebuilt, broken and regenerated that Gregory Buchakjian has undertaken an artistic project and a research devoted to abandoned dwellings. The project constitutes a survey of 744 buildings, a collection of archives and testimonies, and a photographic series. Black and