Photo by Wren Wild 


In times of crisis, we must decide again & again whom we love.
           
            - Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency, 1957




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Ali Kouri (she/her) is a Lebanese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She holds a BA in Communications and a BFA in Studio Arts & Art History from Concordia University. Her work spans painting, textiles, video, curation, and sound, with a focus on memory and the interplay between abstraction and reality.

Kouri is the lead singer and guitarist of the psychedelic-rock band Museums, signed to Petit Village Records. The band is currently in production for their debut album. She has performed across Canada, the United States, and Europe, with appearances at festivals such as Osheaga, Ottawa Bluesfest, NXNE, Canadian Music Week, Mondo NYC, and Festival sur le Canal. She has also toured, performed, and recorded with artists including Bluebird, KZM, Man Happens, Kameka, and Edwin Raphael, and was formerly the lead singer and guitarist of the folk-rock band The Day Dreamers.

Her work has been featured in KEXP, CBC, Global News, CJAD, CJLO, CKUT, Maastricht Student Radio (NL), York Calling (UK), Punchland (NYC), and Outlet Mag (AU), among others.

Artistic Statement
My artistic practice is heavily based on blurring the line between abstraction and figuration or abstraction and reality, depending on the medium. I am curious about the memorialization and idolization of memory, how memories can differ from reality almost as much as a dream or a figment of our imagination. Through material/instrument exploration, I work with fragmented ideas that come from dreams & memories - the things that have some conceptual value, but may not be real. The things that border between ideas in my head and things I can touch with my hands. The inside versus the outside. I explore personal ideas and themes relating to grief, sickness, death, spirituality, heritage & family relationships. Musically, experimentation & collaboration are essential to my process, specifically concerning the distortion and alteration of sound and an instrument’s primary function, co-composition and the physicality of sound.


Booking: sounds@alikouri.com 

To purchase artwork, for commissions, and any other inquiries, get in touch via email.