Gallery 101 held their vernissage for Christina Hajjar‘s Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings.
About the exhibition:
Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings is an installation-based exhibition inspired by hookah lounges, sites of gathering, and diasporic fictions. It complicates the Arab diasporic experience by unpacking quotidian objects and language through methods of repetition, recontextualization, and glitch.
Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings explores transcultural and familial connections through placemaking. The photographs signal the ways in which hookah lounges and restaurants often feature romantic landscape images of homeland. Since Hajjar has never been to Lebanon, the photographs only feature a figure—the artist’s sister—against a backdrop of blue sky, performing improvisational gestures with a plastic tablecloth.
The exhibition runs until May 10, 2025.
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