At the Edge of the City, a Garden

Publication | Waraq – Tabaan! 2024 | Beirut | Spring 2024

“One day, I found a notebook bearing a peculiar handwritten title : “At the Edge of the City, a Garden”. It contained strange plant specimens that seemed to come from another place or perhaps another time. A lot of care was put into the making of this herbarium. Who could this mysterious collector be? The few notes, scattered around the notebook, did not reveal much about them nor indicated where they extracted the plants from. The only thing I gathered from the brief inscriptions was that these specimens were rigorously collected from a city, never named or described. ” – n.o.

Publication by Nour Ouayda | Edited by Hussein Nakhal | Arabic Translation by Hussein Nassereddine | Layout Design and Photo-editing by Studio Kawakeb (Yara Youssef, Vana Rezian, David Habchy)

This volume is part of the exhibition Manifestations; and The Voyage curated by Hussein Nakhal | Produced by Waraq – Tabaan!2024

At the Edge of the City, a Garden was developed with the complicity of The Camelia Committee. For their generous accompaniment, a special thanks to Carine Doumit, Mira Adoumier, Vartan Avakian and the Waraq team (Christina, David & Hussein).