Aref El-Rayess's The 5th of June , or, The Changing of Horses was exhibited at the Salle de L'Orient in the city center of Beirut in April 1968.
Dima' wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom), the itinerant solo exhibition in which the painting first appeared, was held just nine months after the colossal Arab defeat in the June 1967 war.
The work represented the defeat as an opportunity to fervently commit to the struggles that the war served to highlight, namely, the emancip.
Anthem Press Commitment in the artistic practice of aref el-rayess: the changing of horses, paperback/natasha gasparian
