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First Fugue is an experiment to find a way of putting documentary images together as if in a fugue like state. A fugue is a dissociative disorder like amnesia, although it also compels the subject to drift both in space and in identity. A fugue is caused by extremely traumatic events.

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that’s why he has two passports. He shows his work internationally with recent exhibitions in Germany at State of the Art and Haus Der Kunst der Welt; in Lebanon at Ashkal Alwan and Beirut Art Centre; in Canada at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Richmond Art Gallery; in France at Le Gaite Lyric; in Australia at Verge Gallery Sydney University; in Russia at the Moscow Museum; in USA at the Torrance Art Museum, Machine Projects and Human Resources amongst others. As a writer he has published articles in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Press, Concord Press, Art Voices, and he is currently working on a text for E-Flux.com on the profit of smiling. Arjuna Neuman is based in Beirut and Los Angeles, where he founded the artist-run gallery and collective Concord.