Accession Code: wu0854 Title: Missing Lebanese Wars AB65 Date completed: 1996 - 2002 Classification: Prints Medium: Print Height (mm): 1150mm Width (mm): 1290mm Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name : Picture Store Location Description: Location Floor:

© of the artist, courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery.

Missing Lebanese Wars is a fictitious work which documents the attendance of Lebanese historians of differing religious and political beliefs at the races and the betting which took place. The historians would make bets not on the outcome of the race but on the time it would take for the official race photographer to expose the image of the winning horse once it had passed the winning post. Thus each bet would consist of a time which hoped to correspond with the photographer's delay in taking the shot. Betting was so intense that historians would even bribe the photographer to take a particular length of time.