
PROFILES
Mounira al-Solh
The Ventriloquist’s Humor
from "The Sea is a Stereo" project. Courtesy the artist.
A pair of dainty, pointy-toed red shoes click-clacks across the messy floor of an artist’s studio. Their pace accelerates, giving the impression that their owner is trying to run away from something. Flashing texts superimposed on the video images indicate that the video’s creator, Lebanese artist Mounira al-Solh, is incapable of living up to the expectations heaped on cultural producers from…