Samas Black Sun Sun

Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, composer and visual artist, Zad Moultaka represents Lebanon at the 57th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art of the Venice Biennale. With his monumental work, ŠamaŠ, Zad Moultaka combines musical invention with plastic research, in a radical approach where technology gives meaning to the archaic. By making a monumental bomber engine sing and leaning it against a wall sparkling, evoking the golden calf, he attempts, with this twilight relic chanted, to ward off the announced Arab apocalypse. He confronts barbarism with his own weapons, in a vibrant appeal, a synergy of shapes, materials and sounds. A black and gold book with an introductory text by Emmanuel Daydé, curator of the exhibition, a text by Chris Wilson on the history of the Rolls Royce engine used in the installation and a historical perspective of the writer Lebanese Issa Makhlouf.