FOUNDED IN 2010 by Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri, the Visual Arts Study Group is an initiative dedicated to the study of Arab modernism. One of the group’s first and most significant projects was research into the “International Art Exhibition for Palestine,” a show organized by the Palestinian Liberation Organization and held in Beirut in 1978, during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War. Here, Salti and Khouri talk to Rayya Badran about the results of their research, which are being presented in “Past Disquiet” at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona through June 1.

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