Paris gallery cancels Ali Cherri screening after artist's parents killed in Beirut bombings
Galerie Imane Farès in Paris has canceled a scheduled screening of Ali Cherri's short film The Watchman (2023) following the death of the Lebanese artist's parents. The cancellation was announced in a gallery statement that attributed their deaths to Israeli bombings in Beirut on November 26th. Originally planned for December 10th, the screening would have featured Cherri's work focusing on a young Turkish-Cypriot soldier guarding the border of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The Paris gallery will remain closed until December 3rd in solidarity with Cherri and his family. Meanwhile, Cherri's exhibition How I Am Monument is still scheduled to open at Secession in Vienna on December 6th, though no updates have been provided regarding that event. The gallery's decision reflects the immediate impact of geopolitical violence on cultural programming.
Key facts
- Galerie Imane Farès in Paris canceled a screening of Ali Cherri's film The Watchman
- The cancellation was due to the death of Cherri's parents in Israeli bombings in Beirut on November 26th
- The screening was originally scheduled for December 10th
- The gallery will remain closed until December 3rd in support of Cherri and his family
- Cherri's film The Watchman (2023) focuses on a Turkish-Cypriot soldier guarding the border of Northern Cyprus
- Cherri has another exhibition How I Am Monument scheduled to open at Secession in Vienna on December 6th
- No announcement has been made about the status of the Vienna exhibition
- The gallery issued a formal statement explaining the cancellation
Entities
Artists
- Ali Cherri
Institutions
- Galerie Imane Farès
- Secession
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- Vienna
- Austria
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus