Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
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Exhibition of Lebanon artist duo of filmmakers and visual artists focus on the new adaptation of the project “I Must First Apologize…” that draws from many years of archiving work within the field of e-mail spam, reflecting the stories of its creators and its recipients.
An exhibition of Lebanese artistic duo of filmmakers and visual artists focuses on the new adaptation of the project “I Must First Apologize…” that draws from many years of archiving work within the field of e-mail spam, reflecting the stories of its creators and its recipients. In 2014, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige presented their extensive long-term research project evolving around spam e-mails, which they traced back to their 18th century analogue forerunner known as the Jerusalem Letter. Three years later, when even the term “post-truth” has become vague and unfitting to describe current political climate, the idea of a spam e-mail feels old fashioned, out of date. Fotograf Festival is presenting a reiteration of this complex study comprising the media of installation, sound, video, sculpture, drawing and archive material with a new urgency as a historical probe of digital manipulation and blurring borderlines of what we call reality.
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige: Still In Need To Apologize (PR)
