Claudia La Rocco for the Times: So often, political art makes us feel that the cure is as bad as the disease. Didactic, self-righteous and smug, full of easy slogans, this sort of art leaves people just as boxed in as the systems it supposedly critiques.
When enduring such work, it can seem impossible that art could have anything to say to politics and still maintain its integrity, still offer us another way of seeing the world and being in it. It takes an encounter with an artist like Rabih Mroué to remember that this isn’t true, that art can do whatever it wants to do.
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In the end he isn’t giving us the facts, but something far trickier and satisfying.
Rabih Mroué Making Sense of a Mysterious Disappearance in Lebanon - Read on at NYTimes
