Walid Raad is a contemporary Lebanese artist whose work often focuses on the recent history of his country. Working in photography, video, sculpture, and performance, Raad probes the function memory serves in forming the history of war and art. “I would also hope that we do not reduce this entire question of the document into the fact versus fiction debate; history versus aesthetics; journalism versus art; true versus false; real versus imaginary; sober versus drunk; clear versus opaque,” he has said of his practice. Born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon, Raad and his family emigrated to the United States in 1983. He received a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, followed by an MA and PhD in cultural and visual studies from...