
ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL 2019 – VISIONS
ITSLIQUID International Art Festival
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice – Italy | October 04 – November 24, 2019
OPENING October 4, 2019 @ 6 p.m.
About Duwama
I was born and raised in the 1970s-1980s war in Lebanon.
War disconnects lives, memories, and experiences by creating endless cycles of violence, murderous identities, and wounded memories.
I have come to believe that these memories are inevitably transmitted from generation to generation in private and public spaces, and that socio-political conviviality and peace need both individual and national healing processes. Or else, the load of traumas that we carry will prevail, fueled by the continuous local and regional crises and State-sponsored amnesia.
Growing up in war left me with a thirst to discover the truth behind the endless years spent in shelters and displacement, the survival techniques I learned, such as how…
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