The continuing closure of the park has led to a physical space that only exists in the minds of people with a historical memory of a particular place. The results are walls surrounding a ‘secret garden’ creating a kind of spatial vacuum that leads to new fragmented imaginary spaces. The only limitation here is the mind. If we would free ourselves from the associative and historical memories, the physical detachment would inform new social utopian aspirations. The images shown in this exhibition show how the long shadows of the past create figures into today’s images taken one late afternoon in the beautiful and empty Horsh Beirut (Pine Tree Forest).
