ABSTRACT
Who's Afraid of Representation? by Rabih Mroue and Lina Saneh consists of a series of short monologues. The title who’s Afraid of Representation? brings to mind a reluctance towards representation often associated with these kinds of artistic happenings and performances. The fabrication of this truth is the subject of Who's Afraid of Representation? , as well as of much of Mroue's other work. Many of Mroue's performances are about images: images found in archives, books, newspapers, on the street or online. This fascination for images is reflected in the title of the book that presents an overview of his work: Images Mon Amour. Fabrications. Mroue shows images to be complex entities that do much more than depict things, people or events. Images are places where truths are fabricated, which come into being in and through them.
