Fady had a canary — Maha Yammine

exhibition view, Brazil, 2018, Fondazzione Sandretto, Torino, Italy

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Fady was a fighter who survived the Lebanese civil war. After lengthy interviews about the fighting period, he mentionned an anecdote of his past daily life: on his terrace he had a cage suspended from the ceiling, in which lived a canary. The tiles of the terrace were cracked by the forces of the bombings. The canary dropped its food, which landed in the cracks, and found a fertile ground to sprout and grow. Here, I sowed canary food seeds in the cracks of a broken tile.