LAISSE MOI TE VOIR, LAISSE TE TOUCHER

LET ME LOOK AT YOU, LET ME TOUCH YOU

Palazzo Sant’Elia – Palermo

30 May – 31 June 2018

Between Sicily and Beirut lies the Mediterranean. A sea that constantly tries to seduce our  bodies, sometimes sowing death. Let me look at you, let me touch you, foreseen within the Heterotopie section of the Sicilia  Queer filmfest 2018, is condensed around the contemporary art scene of Beirut and on the theme of the  rights of LGBTQ people. A look at the intimate and teeming world of the city: forbidden  love, clandestine love and desire.

The exhibition presents the works of Dima El Horr, Randa Mirza, Lara Tabet, Maria Kassab and Raafat  Majzoub and Roy Dib, using different means of expression such as video, photography, film and installations,  so as to offer an almost voyeuristic look at a hidden Beirut . Some bodies swim  in the Mediterranean, others dance the night away. A forbidden whisper between lovers, an escape to the  hidden spaces of desire. A universe in which the notion of “queer” incessantly reinterprets the  meaning of the celebration of the body, regardless of sexual identity. A body that claims the  freedom to be loved and desired, touched and looked at