Bassam Kyrillos

In search of an alternate urbanity, Bassam Kyrillos’s sculptures bear the scars of destruction and devastation, all too reminiscent of the warring history of Lebanon. Despite this visible sense of ruin and tragedy, Bassam’s sculptures tend, in their movement and geometry, toward renewal, reinvention, a symbol of humanity’s aspiration and longing toward the transcendent, toward an enduring sense of meaning that lives outside the cycle of birth and decay.