Tag: Cherri
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Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines BEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a read more
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Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World
In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an read more
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