To Fall, Patiently
Oakville Galleries•Jun 13, 2026 — Oct 03, 2026
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Ali Cherri (b. 1976, Beirut) is a Paris-based artist with three decades of artistic practice spanning across film, performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. Highly influenced by the Lebanese postwar art scene, Ali Cherri’s complex body of work interrogates how histories and currencies of political violence resonate through generations as well as cultural landscapes and objects. Awarded the Silver Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and exhibited in leading museums around the world, Cherri presents films, sculptures and watercolour paintings in both our galleries as well as in Gairloch Gardens.
At the Gairloch Gallery, Ali Cherri presents a series of sculptures, assembled elegantly between different materials, each a hybrid involving artifacts found by the artist in auctions or marketplaces, originating from different eras and cultural origins. Adjacent to the sculptures is a series of watercolour paintings of prickly-pear cacti, contrasting the plants' sharp thorns…
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To Fall, Patiently
Oakville Galleries•Jun 13, 2026 — Oct 03, 2026
Press Release
Ali Cherri (b. 1976, Beirut) is a Paris-based artist with three decades of artistic practice spanning across film, performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. Highly influenced by the Lebanese postwar art scene, Ali Cherri’s complex body of work interrogates how histories and currencies of political violence resonate through generations as well as cultural landscapes and objects. Awarded the Silver Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and exhibited in leading museums around the world, Cherri presents films, sculptures and watercolour paintings in both our galleries as well as in Gairloch Gardens.
At the Gairloch Gallery, Ali Cherri presents a series of sculptures, assembled elegantly between different materials, each a hybrid involving artifacts found by the artist in auctions or marketplaces, originating from different eras and cultural origins. Adjacent to the sculptures is a series of watercolour paintings of prickly-pear cacti, contrasting the plants' sharp thorns…



















































































































































































