Air Conditioning (2022) is a monumental work that has recently entered the Mudam Collection. Located on level -1 of Mudam and spanning over fifty-four metres, it wraps the walls of the museum’s East Gallery in silence. This installation is comprised of fifteen photographic panels, produced using a specialised animation software (Houdini), and a looping explanatory video lasting 2 minutes and 42 seconds.

The project was conceptualised between May 2020 and May 2021, when Lawrence Abu Hamdan carried out extensive research and information collection as he examined the open-source data available on the United Nations Digital Library website. The artist mapped the instances of surveillance and violation of Lebanese airspace by Israeli military aircrafts over a fifteen-year period, from 2007 to 2021, following United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 in the wake of the July War of 2006 between Israel and Lebanon.

Experience this exhibition through the gaze of the curator Vanessa Lecomte.