How Lebanese artist Ali Cherri looks to build a better world by digging into current landscapes of war and ecological disaster:
“These works look at geographies of violence, and how violence is dissolved within the landscape,” Cherri told Artnet News, “and how through an observation of material manifestation of the elements we can retrace histories of violence and socio-economic and political power structures that govern us and then influence the landscape.”, which Cherri shot in Beirut, he looked at the history of his home country.
Metaphorically, the idea of digging into the earth to tell a new story about what took place there in the past forms the essence of Cherri’s work. It is about giving death a new meaning, and the people, plants, and animals who perished as part of the world’s perpetual tale of destruction, a chance to live on.
“The question is: how do we deal with the traces of the dead?” Cherri says. “How do we make these objects say something or be part of our discourse, and how do certain objects also resist certain discourses?” For years, Cherri’s institutional work has revolved around the display of objects and fragments that have been dug up or destroyed. What is crucial for Cherri is to look at the materiality of an object and what happens when it is placed within a new context.
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