Artist Marwan Rechmaoui on the dark history of a Beirut building | Tate



Rechmaoui introduces the Burj El Murr building in Beirut, Lebanon. Intended as an office block, it was never finished and only ever used as a sniper outpost during the civil war. Rechmaoui created a scale model of the skyscraper as a kind of memorial, entitled Monument for the Living.

🎥 Watch our full interview with Rechmaoui in Beirut here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqePokR3Yo

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