Can One Man Save The (Art) World?

Can One Man Save The (Art) World? Preceded by "Ayman Baalbaki's Mythological City" By Pr. Nayla Tamraz. Art is the way to approach performatively the illusion of individual decisive agency. The coming to the fact that decisions made and actions taken are never one s doing but are always in advance to one s awareness, should be called authenticity . This witnessing stance gives the necessary participassion to the happening of authenticity in art and opens the way to what can be called authentifying, meaning the authentication through testifying. Engaging in the performative modality of criticism, the text follows a comet-like elliptical encounter with the son of Adham al Aamili, a Lebanese artist and activist. And through the question of postmodernism and individual agency, the theoretical text paves the way for a fly-by encounter with the singularity of Ayman Baalbaki s work. Here, myth and history are flattened out vertically, shedding a differential light to the contemporary context of a territory for which the globalization appellation has been invented where the deconstruction of the competing universalities at play and their common Abrahamic legacy is an open-air collective entreprise.