Triumph of the Limp

As part of the Public Program of the international contemporary art fair Art Basel Paris, the Musée Delacroix is presenting two cabinets of curiosity by the artist Ali Cherri, in a dialogue with the works of Eugène Delacroix.

Represented by the Almine Rech Gallery, the Lebanese artist (born in 1976) creates works exploring the ways in which certain histories of trauma and violence interact with museum and gallery collections. He offers an investigation of the politics of visibility in museums, and its influence on collective memory and historical discourse.
Consistent with these themes, the two cabinets of curiosity Cherri is showing at the Musée Delacroix contain sets of fragments that resemble relics from different collections.
Displayed among Delacroix’s paintings, the works reveal Cherri’s interest not only in bodies and history, but in the afterlife of artefacts and museum narratives.