Lebanese War Statistics
The seventeen-year-long Lebanese war ended in 1990. Soon after, a
short text of statistics was published in the Boston Globe, the New
York Times, and Le Monde. It read: “150.000 dead, 200.000 wounded,
17.500 disappeared, 3641 car bombs etc.” Nada Sehnaoui was astounded
to see that seventeen years of a horrific war, which affected every
aspect of life, had been reduced into such a curt text. In reaction
to this, the artist produced a series of Paintings entitled
Lebanese War Statistics, which was her first
conceptual body of work using the short text published in the press.
