Plastic Memory Containers
In the summer of 2004, Nada Sehnaoui was invited to create a
site-specific work near the 6000-year old ruins in the Lebanese town
of Byblos. After some research the artist discovered how proud the
local people were of their cultural heritage, yet how alienated they
felt from their recent history, more specifically, the memory of the
civil war. The installation titled
Plastic Memory Containers featured 100 white
plastic buckets filled with 3000 crumpled balls of paper with the
following text repeated indefinitely on them: “How meaningful is it
to have a 6000-year old history when we have no memory of our recent
past?”
Plastic Memory Containers
100 White Plastic Buckets
3000 Crumpled Balls of Paper with Text
Byblos, 2004>