Untitled (Ruin, 1991, #1)

There is dislocation and instability inherent in this new body of work, which continues Jurayj's exploration of imagery from the thirty-year conflict in Lebanon, his family's homeland. Paint becomes a subjective vehicle to reinforce, disrupt and elide both image and meaning as representations of war and trauma are explored in his work. Jurayj implicates the viewer into the pictorial space of violent historical events, blurring the line between the personal and the public. Lebanon thus exists both as a nation-state and a metaphor for loss and difference. In manipulating and debasing images of ware from the media, Jurayj traverses such a territory - one beset with disequilibrium, yet interlaced with the exuberance, melancholia and the miasma of political disturbance.
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