Tamara Kalo, Millenary Witness (2024) Culture and unafraid of extravagance

and unafraid of extravagance

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Tamara Kalo, Millenary Witness (2024) Culture and unafraid of extravaganceThis project aims to conjure an ancestral futurity in the present. As Lebanon undergoes perpetual crises, it leaves ones life within it fixated on quotidian struggles, unable to imagine a brighter tomorrow, and occasionally escaping in the nostalgia of its recent romanticized past. Working with a seven thousand year old olive tree, the work muses on the notion of deep time within the framework of this living tree, imagining the deep past as well as