WALID RAAD

Publication about a site-specific installation by Walid Raad in Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (Cologne, Germany) in the exhibition series Replace Rubens.The artists approach is based on the assumption that artworks are not constants, but rather mutable quantitie s that change meaning and thus also their form during cultural or physical transfer. For instance, in dealing with the Lebanese wars , he uses the format of a seemingly authentic archive to confront the Western viewer with a society that has lost a unifying narrati ve.