Recent Museum Acquisition

Almine Rech is pleased to announce that Ali Cherri’s artwork Sleeping bronze head, from 2024, is now part of the collection of the Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, Romania.

Exploring different geographies of violence in his native Lebanon but also in the broader region, Ali Cherri (b. 1976, Beirut) is a Paris-based artist with two decades of artistic practice spanning across film, performance, sculpture - in clay and bronze -, drawing, and installations, interrogating the ways in which political violence disseminates into people’s bodies and the physical and cultural landscape. Shaped by the vibrant artistic scene of postwar Beirut in the 1990s, Cherri began to investigate the sensorial coproduction of reality between images of conflict, the urban fabric, and his own body.

— Arie Akkermans, writer and art critic