From here, it's only a four-hour flight to Beirut, the Lebanese capital this video essay by Lawrence Abu Hamdan homes in on. The Diary of a Sky is on show in the Annex of Centraal Museum. The video focuses on the sky above that city. The sky that has often been celebrated in art as a great void, a manifestation of silence, and as a metaphor for the infinite mental space humans possess.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan inverts this gaze. Lebanese airspace has become totally militarized; the terrifying presence of planes, missiles and drones has deprived inhabitants of any room for thought. Narrated in diary form, the artist deploys his personal archive of sound recordings to make a well-wrought argument. He backs up his investigation into the ongoing harassment from above with facts and objective observations.