The artist Hady Sy posing with his "Wall of Hope" sculpture in September 2019. (Archive photo: L'Orient-Le Jour)
Named Wall of Hope, the statue by Lebanese-French-Senegalese artist Hady Sy was installed in downtown Beirut in September 2019 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Beirut Art Fair.Barely a month later, the imposing structure of cast concrete and Corten steel, 4 meters high, depicting a wall with broken central bars, became the standard-bearer of the October 2019 popular uprising. For its creator, as well as for all the "revolutionaries posing in front of it," the sculpture had become emblematic of a moment of hope and re-connection for an entire population. Lebanese author wins best fiction prize Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine honored at 2025 National Book Awards During the double explosion at the Beirut port in August 2020, the sculpture miraculously came through unscathed, while kilometers around, buildings had been...
Named Wall of Hope, the statue by Lebanese-French-Senegalese artist Hady Sy was installed in downtown Beirut in September 2019 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Beirut Art Fair.Barely a month later, the imposing structure of cast concrete and Corten steel, 4 meters high, depicting a wall with broken central bars, became the standard-bearer of the October 2019 popular uprising. For its creator, as well as for all the "revolutionaries posing in front of it," the sculpture had become emblematic of a moment of hope and re-connection for an entire population. Lebanese author wins best fiction prize Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine honored at 2025 National Book Awards During the double explosion at the Beirut port in August 2020, the sculpture miraculously came through unscathed, while kilometers around, buildings had been...
