{"product_id":"the-reeds-1","title":"The Reeds","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Reeds by Lara Tabet explores the artist's relationship to a specific place in Beirut. A public space cent.. the city but tucked away giving it a sense of remoteness and obscurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a collaboration between one who is familiar with this space and its happenings and another who's sole familiarity takes the form of folk tales or fairy tales recounted by the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTales of random sexual encounters that define this space at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt traces the evolution of the relation to this space from disconnectedness as spectators to submergence as the actors as the project evolves from abstraction to conception to realisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eits the decent or the ascent from \u003cspan\u003evoyeurism\u003c\/span\u003e to exhibitionism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series epitomises several ventures into the mentioned space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt first, it resulted in a peripheral and distanced overview. A visual documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInteracting with people within the space then led us to provoke, stage and photograph these recollected tales as evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEventually blurring the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined, as we acted out our own folk tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Reeds by Lara Tabet is part of the \u003c\/span\u003ePOV Female Beirut series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePOV stands for Point of View. POV Female aims to promote the work of five Young female photographers based in five different cities worldwide, giving exposure to previously unpublished, self-initiated projects. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Excellent, with slight marking to left on cover as seen on photo. Hand numbered 47\/100\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oodee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52792863097114,"sku":"OODEEPOVB01","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/3793\/files\/The_Reeds-2_copy2.jpg?v=1788524386","url":"https:\/\/villagebooks.co\/products\/the-reeds-1","provider":"Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}