The Eye №15 – Me Xile

The Eyes invites Lebanese-born writer Sabyl Ghoussoub to explore the link between photography and exile. This issue invites us to reflect on how art can help to reconstruct a fragmented identity. This new issue of The Eyes takes a multi-dimensional approach to exile. Exile as a common noun, as a state, as a condition, but also, and above all, as a verb. Exiles are actors in their own destiny, with the capacity to transform their lives and influence their own paths.
Far from external representations of exiles, this issue focuses on first-person accounts. This is true not only of Sabyl Ghoussoub, the guest artist in this issue, but also of the other artists chosen, who reveal facts of life, emotions and a certain collective truth, while navigating the frontiers of language, culture, time and space. In their hands and through their eyes, exiled and fragmented lives can finally be expressed and rebuilt.
Sabyl Ghoussoub offers a subjective visual panorama of exile and identity through a selection of artists and seminal and contemporary books that have inspired him. The portfolios and books presented intentionally multiply the means of expression: from personal archives to photography, film and even installation. He enriches his approach by inviting personalities of his choice to share their reflections on these notions embodied in photography.