Monica Basbous (Venezuela, 1988) is an architect, researcher, educator, as well as a cartographer. For the project shown at the Boghossian Foundation, she works with Charbel Alkhoury (Beirut, 1993) who is a visual artist, photographer and archivist. They both currently live and work in Beirut.
The collective works with various media to explore the social fabrics of urban spaces. POPG Clanc (2021), originates from a WhatsApp group of the same name, originally created by a group of online gamers in the aftermath of the popular uprisings of October 2019, that evolved into a revolutionary cell, an information sharing and verification system, a mutual aid network and a social and emotional support system. Alkhoury and Basbous engaged the members of POPG Clanc in the process of archiving chat, presenting an alternative timeline of the collective and personal events that have shaped the past two years.
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