Ali Cherri, "The Sentinel," 2026. Digital video, screen projection, 16:9 format, 29 minutes. Edition 1/5 + 2 artist’s proofs. (Credit: Almine Rech gallery)
A wounded soldier, mocking bronze masks, watercolors where bodies float in emptiness: in New York, Ali Cherri unfolds a landscape of exhaustion in "Last Watch Before Dawn," his first solo show at Almine Rech. Born in Beirut in 1976 and based in Paris, the artist continues his exploration here of the traces that political violence leaves on people and narratives.He develops a multidisciplinary practice — film, sculpture (clay and bronze), drawing, installation — fueled by the postwar Beiruti art scene. In other news In Beirut, the venue closes but the project endures: What the end of Zoukak’s theater means From "The Disquiet" (2013) to "The Dam" (2022), his telluric trilogy examines territories shaped by layers of conflict. A new cycle, begun with "The Watchman" (2023) and continued here with...
A wounded soldier, mocking bronze masks, watercolors where bodies float in emptiness: in New York, Ali Cherri unfolds a landscape of exhaustion in "Last Watch Before Dawn," his first solo show at Almine Rech. Born in Beirut in 1976 and based in Paris, the artist continues his exploration here of the traces that political violence leaves on people and narratives.He develops a multidisciplinary practice — film, sculpture (clay and bronze), drawing, installation — fueled by the postwar Beiruti art scene. In other news In Beirut, the venue closes but the project endures: What the end of Zoukak’s theater means From "The Disquiet" (2013) to "The Dam" (2022), his telluric trilogy examines territories shaped by layers of conflict. A new cycle, begun with "The Watchman" (2023) and continued here...
