In Jayce Salloum’s video work untitled part 1: everything and nothing, shot during the waning days of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, activist and former prisoner Soha Bechara poses a poignant question:
“Distance carries in its essence so many things. Does it merely abide by the measure of kilometres, dictating separation and evoking longing? Does greater distance necessarily yield greater pain, while proximity lessens the ache?”