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we return to the fog
a video by Carine Doumit | 15’ | 2026text by Carine Doumit with fragments adapted from Haytham El Wardany, Emile Habibi & Anne Carson
images by Carine Doumit, Sofía Velázquez, Ghassan Salhab, Mira Adoumier, Liwaa Yazji
sounds by Tatiana El Dahdah, Eirik Havnes, Victor Bresse
voices Carine Doumit, Sofía Velázquez, Liwaa Yazji, Dunya Halwani
sound design by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
additional music from Luigi Nono (Io, Frammento Da Prometeo)
additional compositions by Kinda Hassan
coloring by Chrystel Elias
This work is part of a two-channel installation we return to the fog / Even the oracle cannot avert fate, commissioned by Market Gallery
for Glasgow International Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art under The Camelia Committee
In this fable, we do not simply speak - we borrow words spoken by others before them. Every citation is a soul, wandering down a forgotten path, a memory of what happened to others we never knew —others like us, who have also been spared. Citations are drifts, and intentional drifts are acts of resistance. We’ve come a long way, and a few of us have devised schemes to resurface, against all odds. We tell you fragments of our journey to vanquish the fear molded in our bodies.
Composed of six fragments, we return to the fog is a visual and sonic piece which presents distance as a series of pauses in movement. How far can one go to mute the rumbles of war? What still reverberates as one moves away from the epicenter?
a project by the trio Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud & Carine Doumit
in collaboration
with Christian Sebille - GMEM
will be opening at the festival Chroniques in Marseille in October 2026
Conceived by three Lebanese artists — Kinda Hassan (composer), Racha Baroud (performer), and Carine Doumit (editor and writer) — Elegy for a Disappearance is a performance built around a sound-based dramaturgy that confronts disappearance in the current context in Lebanon, where places and lives are violated and annihilated.
The performance begins with an excerpt from Racha Baroud’s diary, which bears direct witness to the destruction of her village in South Lebanon in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. The excerpt captures the details she perceived and the sensations she experienced in the ravaged landscape. The experience she describes once again intensifies our dismay in the face of loss and unsettles the question of an impossible sense of rootedness.
We then bring together fragments of sound, text, and visual material that serve both as witnesses to and traces of disappearance. On stage, these fragments are weaved into an audiovisual and performative composition.
solas y juntas
Carine Doumit and Sofía Velázquez | since 2021
solas y juntas is an ongoing conversation about childhood, war and poetry, traveling back and forth between Lebanon and Peru, between fantasy and the real world. It is based on a constellation of letters which translate into films, video works, short stories, and other potential creative forms.
The Story of Mir
short story | written in English and Arabic | 2024
with illustrations by young Yuna Alzaout and non-visual artist Daniel Kupferberg.
published in 2024 for the exhibition Manifestations; and The Voyage, curated by Hussein Nakhal and produced by Waraq in the framework of Tabaan!2024 - Beirut
The Story of Mir [The Monster that Became Dragon] is set in the 80s, during the Lebanese Civil wars. It is a story about a girl called Mir, who once lived on the
island of Kalimantan where she had visions of a large
green monster, until she found a lizard she brought back to her hometown in Mount Lebanon, a lizard that grew up to become a dragon…
This publication is part of an ongoing research on childhood, or rather childhoodness (enfanceté in French), a time and place of active mystery.
With a drawing by young Yuna Alzakout
Created in 2020 | Mira Adoumier, Carine Doumit, Nour Ouayda
The Camelia Committee [مجموعة في الكاميليا] came together in March of 2020 in Beirut. Named after the experimental TV series by filmmaker Mohamad Soueid انا في الكاميليا, the group develops ways in which image, text, sound and voice come together in various mediums and forms. Mira Adoumier (filmmaker, visual artist and researcher), Carine Doumit (film editor and writer) and Nour Ouayda (filmmaker and film programmer) have worked together on a series of conversations around collective work, the collective exhibition At the Edge of the Forest, a Garden, and the collective performance one sea, three seas. They continue to collaborate on films, video installations and film programs, among other projects.
From the two-channel video intsallation as part of the exhibition
In Guise of the Commonplace, Glasgow (2026)
Les épargnés / The Spared Ones
short story | written in French with English adaptation, with poems in Arabic by Liwaa Yazji | 2014
published by Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts in Beirut
as part of the HomeWorks VII; A Forum on Cultural Practices
Translating gestures of montage, this publication weaves different literary forms (prose, poetry, script), introducing images, footnotes and quotation as elements of the narration, and weaving multiple voices and storylines. The short story evokes strange encounters made in Beirut around the year 2013: a fearless pathologist called L., an ageless child called N., a couple of inseparable stray dogs, and a woman-insect.