Marie Khouri
Bronze

Marie Khouri’s exquisite new sculptures belie their dark underpinnings. The Vancouver-based artist speaks of making them in response to a recent visit to Beirut where it was impossible not to reflect on her experiences as a young woman in the 1970s fleeing the country’s civil war. She describes the Lebanese capital’s war-ravaged buildings as “wounded” and “scarred”- evoking the body in all its vulnerability in the face of war - even while she expresses admiration for the enduring city’s newly erected structures as signs of humanity’s capacity for renewal and the cyclical nature of existence.