Eleven Views of Mount Ararat

Overview

'Referring in its title to the famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by the Japanese artist Hokusai, Gilbert Hage’s Eleven Views of Mount Ararat depicts another preeminent mountain, this time as its representation appears in the context of various houses of members of the Armenian community of Lebanon.

Could Hage have made a book with thirty-six views of Mount Ararat? Not at this historical point; Hage’s book implies, intertextually and symptomatically, an absence, one that cannot be alleviated simply by photographing additional representational appearances of the mountain by visiting more interiors'. Jalal Toufiq

2011


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

Courtesy Espace Kettaneh Kunigk (Galerie Tanit, Munich)
Reproduced by Sharjah Art Foundation