On 7 February 2026, UMAM D&R, the Lokman Slim Foundation, and Dar Al-Jadeed mark the fifth anniversary of Lokman Slim’s assassination, with the active support of the French Institute – French Embassy.

This year, the commemoration comes alive through the photo exhibition Remaining, a signature project of the Lokman Slim Foundation, with photography by Edouard Elias and curated by Katia Jarjoura. Through Elias’s photographs, the exhibition documents political assassinations since 2005 and resists the erasure of victims and their loved ones, as well as the traces and sites of violence, from collective memory.

Over months of work, the project team met with the victims’ families and survivors, photographing their portraits and the objects they entrusted to us. They also returned to the crime scenes where the assassinations took place and whose impact still endures.

The exhibition also reflects a period when political killings were used to silence dissent and shape Lebanon’s political landscape. These were not isolated crimes, but a method of control sustained by fear and the absence of accountability.

Against this backdrop, Edouard Elias’s photographs hold on to what endures—ever so human and fragile—a reminder that what was taken by force will forever remain.

Since art and memory are collective acts of persistence, your visit to the exhibition is both an affirmation and a commitment to the cause we carry. Join us.

Saturday, 7 February 2026, 4 PM, at Union Marks, Abroyan Factory, Bourj Hammoud, Beirut

Remaining will be on view until 3 March, 2026, daily from 2 PM to 8 PM. Closed on Sundays.