(We Decided To Let Them Say "We Are Convinced" Twice. It Was More Convincing That Way.) A Project by Walid Raad
New Works Laboratory 2006
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993
Seventy-five at 75: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection at the Henry Art Gallery
Up To Date: Monsen Collects Contemporary
Steve Roden: day ring, night ring
Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks
Current: River Photography from the Monsen Collection
And Deer and Trees and Things: Videos by Cat Clifford
Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes
Kelly Mark Thanks Everyone for Everything
Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
150 Works of Art
Light Reign, James Turrell Skyspace(We Decided To Let Them Say "We Are Convinced" Twice. It Was More Convincing That Way.) A Project by Walid Raad
East Gallery
November 18, 2006 – February 11, 2007
Walid Raad works with video, photography, and literary essays to investigate the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. (We Decided To Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.), a series of 15 large-scale photographs, specifically recalls the Israeli Army’s invasion and siege of Beirut in 1982. That summer Raad, an intrepid 15-year-old with a telephoto lens, took photographs of near and distant military activity in West Beirut from his home in the eastern sector. Recently reprinting the pictures from the original, now degraded negatives, he discovered that the images’ unusual discoloration, creases, and holes offered a disturbing but realistic representation of a broken world rendered flat by the series of catastrophes that had befallen it. Highly regarded for his project “The Atlas Group,” Raad grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence.