Lebanon

and from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses tells the story of a Beiruti coastal house from the late 1920s. This house stands as witness to different tides of violence inflicted upon the city. The massive port explosion in 2020 tore through Beirut’s urban fabric. Yet the eradication of the city’s built heritage has primarily been the consequence of decades of intentional lack of planning. Rather than relying on traditional methods of architectural conservation,this project convenes experimental artistic strategies to creatively preserve the architecture of the building, the spatial and social ecosystem it enables, and the histories of the city—recent and distant—that it represents.