Project Description

“Referring in its title to the famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by the
Japanese artist Hokusai, Gilbert Hage’s Eleven Views of Mount Ararat depicts
another preeminent mountain, this time as it representationally appears in the
context of various houses of members of the Armenian community of Lebanon. Could
Hage have made a book with thirty-six views of Mount Ararat? Not at this historical
point; Hage’s book implies, intertextually and symptomatically, an absence, one
that cannot be alleviated simply by photographing additional representational
appearances of the mountain by visiting more interiors.” Jalal Toufic

Courtesy Espace Kettaneh Kunigk (Galerie Tanit, Munich). Reproduced by Sharjah Art Foundation

2011