'Tell me, South': Life in Lebanon explored through voices, photographs and memories

The Beit Beirut Museum's Tell Me South exhibition is taking many visitors in Lebanon down memory lane, evoking emotions of all kinds in a showcase that aims to preserve the memory of villages destroyed by Israel in southern Lebanon. Keys hang like wind chimes from the ceiling of the Beirut Museum, each one symbolizing what was once a home. Taking place in the Sodeko district venue in the Lebanese capital, the exhibition has generated massive attention due to its display of family photos, testimonies and personal stories of visitors that have made their way to the city. Organizers say the aim is to show south Lebanon through its people, far from an image that reduces it to devastation. One of the projects on display is Court Keys Without Homes, which comprises videos of three southerners who kept keys to their houses even though they no longer exist. The exhibition also explores the violence that continues long after ceasefires and the liberation of the south in the year 2000. Videos of Nabatea and notebooks in which visitors wrote down their memories of the south are also on display. One part of the exhibition was to let the south explain their story by themselves, by their voice themselves, but also for the country to stay connected to what's happening in the south. Tell Me South exhibition will close during the summer vacation and will return in September with new pictures, memories and stories that will be added by visitors.