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village voice > art > Walid Raad/the Atlas Group: Interrogation Nation: Art as a Detective Report by Jerry Saltz |
 | | For Raad, Lebanon is a Gordian knot of notaries, dentists, professors, and mechanics—a principality of would-be revolutionaries, marginal characters, and heartbroken souls. |
 | | Yet for all his pseudo-scientific esotericism and his ultra-educated post-structuralism, Raad (or at least his character) is a textbook romantic: a man in search of the miraculous, a knight-errant taken with political intrigue, social estrangement, and emptiness—someone preoccupied with connections and affinities, real or not. |
 | | Raad's vision of his war-torn country is part apparition, part anxiety attack, and part healing fantasy. |
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