.« Paradise»: Hommage to Ghassan Ghazal »( 2016) Video performance of Nahed Mansour (00:05:35)

“Paradise” is an hommage to the soul of the artist Ghassan Ghazal (1961-2016) with whom I shared a friendship that lasted eight years of artistic and intellectual exchange and special connection of love and affinity.
“Paradise” recalls Ghassan Ghazal’s last performance “Sacrifice ou victim“ (2015) in which he wrote ”Al Fatiha” sourat from Koran in braille with henna on the back of a sheep that he called Faro (symbolic metaphor of the old testament story of Abraham sacrifice of his son that was replaced by a sheep).
The text in this video-performance in braille is an extract of Ghassan Ghazal ‘s written notes about the nature of love:
«L’amour est un miracle inconditionnel qui refuse les structures humaines. Il est informel et de language spirituel. Mais que nous lui infligeons, l’imposons sera toujours présent. Il ne faut pas le chercher en espérant le trouver. Car il est en nous et c’est par la foie que nous
l’épousons» Ghassan Ghazal

"Love is an unconditional miracle that denies human structures. It is informal and of spiritual language. But if we inflict it or impose it, it will be always present. One shall not look for it in the hope of finding it. For it is in us and it is with faith that we marry it. "

The artistic and human carrier of Ghassan Ghazal was a special creative and authentic one based on dedication, commitment and called the revolutionary nature of love..
Finally are not Art and Love the ultimate ways for humans to overcome the predetermined reality of death through the continuity of life in the minds and hearts of the livings and the collective memory of the society?