Obaid Allah Hussein

The project aims to pin down time and memory which had been toyed with during and after the war. The exhibition will feature 16 photographs of blackboards in destroyed schools in the Mleha district outside Damascus. Memory of war is closely connected with one’s sensory memory which can distort our memories of those years. As a result of this sensory manipulation the mind forms a black, unintelligible image of unknown origin. The photographs of the blackboards from the schools destroyed by war are an attempt to clarify memory by means of the dates and writings on them, highlight the distortion that had occurred and reconnect memory with a part of time, until we come to the empty blackboard which represents the truth about that black image.