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Un Cercle autour du Soleil
Ali Cherri
LebanonGALLERYCONVERSATION
In my art I find I’m fighting against the prevailing image of what living through a war is like. The media seeks...
When I was working on Un Cercle Autour de Soleil I was living outside of Beirut for the first time. Being in a new city enabled me to step back and view Beirut from a new standpoint. I structured my video in two parts: before and after the war.
After the end of the war, I was confronted with the “real” city, but I wanted to find the imagined city of my childhood – a city devoid of people but still suggestive of their presence – in today’s Beirut.
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