To decipher the world we live in and propose breathable ways of thinking and dreaming anew, artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (both born in 1969 in Beirut) have elaborated over the last decades a multimedia, research-based practice that confronts the inescapable course of the real and the emancipatory strength of image-making, fiction, and poetry. In Lebanese Rocket Society project (2011-2018), they uncover the... Read the full article here.

This text by Cément Dirié is an abridged version of the one published
in the general catalog of the 2026 Venice Biennale (with the kind permission of the author and the publisher). It is excerpted from MAMCO JOURNAL #16, published in June 2026. You can access all previous issues in digital format on our website by following this link. To receive future issues free of charge, send your postal address to journal@mamco.ch.