A family archive built from passports, diplomas, letters, memoirs, photographs, stamps and objects — to make visible what has been lived through.
Parenthèse draws together nearly a decade of research into the Antaki archives — my own, and those left by my parents, Mona Fouad Rahme Antaki and Dr. Loutfi Antaki. The project traces the trajectories of a French-Lebanese-Syrian family across Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Riyadh, Paris, Montreal.
Conceived as a multi-format work — installation, book, exhibition, digital fragments — the project takes the documentary object as its raw material: a stamp, a diploma, a letter of recommendation become the matter of memory and narrative.