This publication contains an essay by Tom Houlton, author of the book Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects, and a conversation between Ali Cherri and the curators Emma Dean and Jeanette Pacher, and an extensive image spread with blow-ups of the slides from the new work A Monument to Subtle Rot.

Each dust jacket has been individually treated by the artist and contains a sample of mud, a material so important to Ali Cherri. The small square placed in the center shows the visible traces of this manual work.

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 three decades of artistic practice spanning across film, performance, sculpture - in terra 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.