In a city shaped by recurring violence and looming collapse, the sea offers quiet resistance – a fragile, persistent rhythm of continuity. Beirut, Recurring Dream explores the Mediterranean coastline not as an escape, but as a space for emotional survival and repair. Drawing on personal memory and collective experience, it reflects on our return to the sea after destruction- to stay human, to breathe, to reconnect with the elemental. It asks: What does it mean to live after repeated endings? Can a place marked by extinction – of lives, dreams, systems – still hold space for renewal? Using analog photography, I slow down, remain present, and hold stillness between ruptures. The sea is not backdrop but protagonist: an ancient witness to our cycles of loss and return.
about the artist
Tanya Traboulsi is a Beirut-based photographer whose work explores belonging, identity, and memory. Merging personal images with family archives, she centers Beirut as a recurring theme. Her work has been widely published and exhibited.
