artworks not set stories

rana haddad . pascal hachem . not set stories . installation / performance . Northeast Southwest Dresden . dresden | germany . 2022

or, history is not set in stone. Inspired from a family favorite board game, Scrabble, to a statement on the burden of history,
this interactive installation challenges the notions of a country’s past by attempting to define its present.

Dresden / Beirut both tabula rasa. One reconstructed with historical stones. One lost most of its stones.
The artists chose to pose a timely question: how do we not carry the stones of the past with us into the future?

Citizens will be invited to build up words from a lettered stone-blocks.