Walid Raad's Simulacral Crates at Fondazione Volume!
Walid Raad has assembled around thirty wooden crates—typically used for transporting art—at Fondazione Volume! in Rome, each bearing reproductions of figurative-modernist paintings by Arab artists. The installation imagines that an artist has used the crates to reach the originals, declared deliberately lost, or at least to revive their memory. Raad employs dim, immersive lighting reminiscent of a ship's hold or a backroom, lending these simulacral works the urgent vitality of newborns and survivors. The exhibition runs at Fondazione Volume! in Rome.
Key facts
- Walid Raad was born in Chbanieh, Lebanon in 1967.
- He lives and works between Beirut and New York.
- The exhibition features around thirty wooden crates.
- The crates reproduce figurative-modernist paintings by Arab artists.
- The installation is at Fondazione Volume! in Rome.
- The work uses dim, immersive lighting.
- The concept involves originals declared deliberately lost.
- The exhibition was reviewed by Pericle Guaglianone.
Entities
Artists
- Walid Raad
Institutions
- Fondazione Volume!
- Artribune
Locations
- Chbanieh
- Lebanon
- Beirut
- New York
- Rome
- Italy