Installation view of Walid Raad, Paula Cooper Gallery, April 13 – June 1, 2019. © Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery. Photo: Steven Probert Studio.
November 14, 2025 – May 17, 2026
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Through created documents and stories related to the political and socio-economic contexts of Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East, Walid Raad imagines a surrogate world of violence against people, land and history, one filled with otherworldly doubt, idiosyncrasy, wit, and labyrinthine space and time.
In this exhibition, Walid Raad presents artworks from his three ongoing projects: The Atlas Group (1989–2004), Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, and Sweet Talk: Beirut (Commissions). For Moderna galerija, Raad expands his temporal, geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological frame by inserting aspects of the Slovenian and (post)Yugoslav worlds, which he tackles through new works created in dialogue with archival material from Moderna galerija.