TIMEBOX Beirut is an installation by Razan AlSalah and Lotfi AlSalah, produced in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung -Middle East
The TIMEBOX
The box is a modern plexiglas stereoscope specially designed to mount on a street pole. It’s comprised of two superposed images that give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through the special lens.
Each TIMEBOX places the viewer's point of view within the perspective of the original stereograph, instigating an instant visual juxtaposition between past and present - and possibly a glimpse into the future?
Creating cultural and historical interest on the streets, TIMEBOX places each archival 3D image in its original context to provoke a sense of how Beirut’s urban public space has changed in the past century. The act of walking through the trail of 10 boxes around Beirut or simply stumbling upon a TIMEBOX, aims to reawaken our experience of Beirut’s public spaces and highlight the contrast of how it has changed.
TIMEBOX is an urban toy; a pleasant surprise; an interesting way of reconnecting with the street and with the image. Looking into the TIMEBOX, the viewer is immersed in scenes from the 1900s. One viewer with one image, an intimacy often lost in our photo-sharing world.
The transparency of the media used enhances the illusion of depth but also allows a layering of past and present. An illusion and disillusion. It aims to maintain a nuanced observation rather than enchantment; it is rather a disenchantment from the collective nostalgia for the days of tramway Beirut and a realization that things have changed and are still changing.
Key Dates:
• June 1st- 6:00PM: TIMEBOX Beirut is launching at Beirut Design Week launch party, Gold Souk, Beirut Souks. Follow a trail of footsteps from the party venue to the TIMEBOX located at the Souks.
• June 2nd- 12:30PM: TIMEBOX Beirut creator Razan AlSalah speaking at the BDW International Design Conference at Cinemacity.
• June 6th - 4:00PM: Join the artists behind TIMEBOX on a walking tour of the 10 TIMEBOXes around Beirut starting at Saifi Village Ferrari showroom.
For the map, please click here
• TIMEBOX is running through October 1st, 2015.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Beirut
Lotfi AlSalah
+96170674712
alsalah.razan@gmail.com
Dubai
Sarah Mheidly
+97 552177011
sarah.mheidly@gmail.com.