Artist Mounira Al Solh draws portraits of Syrian people in exile
Al Solh has completed more than three hundred sketches of Syrians who fled to Lebanon after the Syrian civil war broke out in 2010.
Shortly after the civil war in Syria broke out in 2010, artist Mounira Al Solh started sketching and speaking to the Syrians who fled to her neighbourhood in Lebanon, as a way to welcome them and hear their stories. She speaks with Tom Power about this ongoing project, and how those conversations have helped her deal with her own childhood experience with war.
A selection of Al Solh's work from her series "I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous," is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through Sunday, April 29.
— Produced by Tayo Bero