Johanne Allard | Bomblet (Lebanon), 2024
Edition 2/3
Each piece, with a flower endemic to the country it represents, tells a story through woven threads that create a topography of ruin, remembrance and resurrection.
Bomblet (Lebanon) encapsulates a fragment of embroidery extracted from the Cedrus Libani Cluster Moth sculpture. It reflects on the 34-day conflict in 2006, during which South Lebanon was carpeted with an estimated 4 million submunitions, their remnants hauntingly embedded in trees and scattered across the landscape. The piece incorporates a narrative of war woven into its fibers, stylized to evoke the form and motion of a detonating cluster bomb. Each stitch serves as a witness to the echoes of conflict, capturing both devastation and resilience deeply woven into collective memory. Today, the 2024 invasion marks Israel’s fourth incursion into Lebanon since 1978.
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Johanne Allard | Bomblet (Lebanon) Figures - 2024
From the series A Feast In The Ruins
42 x 31 cm
Embroidery on Cotton Rag Paper 320 g - Edition of 3 - Hand finished