These are placed in direct relationship with images of Beirut and of the family apartment from the balcony of which these plants were gathered before being placed under the developer. Starting 2014, Nadim Asfar began work on “Experiencing the Mountain”, a project dealing with the mountainous landscape of Lebanon, taking the role of a land surveyor, capturing thousands of photographs across the country. In this work, he interrogates the role of aesthetic representation and of the photographer’s point of view in landscape photography as much as the role of beauty and poetry in a nationalized politicized and war-affected territory. This endeavour was inaugurated with a short film shown for the first time at the Heartland – Territoires d’Affects exhibition at the Beirut Exhibition Center in 2015. A selection of photographs in large-scale formats were displayed at the “Where I End and You Begin” exhibition at Galerie Tanit in 2016 and again at the Beiteddine Palace at the occasion of its annual festival in 2018.