I Love you for ever Hiba was "lifted" from one of the photographs showing this inscription at the foot of the Martyrs' Statue in central Beirut, the title standing as a loving counterpart to the summer 2005 Lebanese journey, a presence resisting the world's turbulence; where the square once pulsed with Mediterranean trade and encounter before 1975, fifteen years of war have left it razed, deserted and returned to a soulless car park, bordered by a Virgin Megastore and redeveloped upscale districts financed by the Solidere trust. Monique Deregibus's work remains attached to cities chosen precisely for a living violence in representation that mirrors photography's own act, the exhibition and book title wagering, impertinently, against the city's tragic fate to expose, in full light, the love that endures and will go on haunting the territory.