Ralph Khoury is an illustrator, painter and designer living in Lebanon. During quarantine due to COVID-19, he created a series of animations that express the solitude, melancholy, humor, and mental...
Ralph Khoury is an illustrator, painter and designer living in Lebanon. During quarantine due to COVID-19, he created a series of animations that express the solitude, melancholy, humor, and mental exertion caused by the pandemic. While aspects of his videos are connected to place, especially through explosions and mechanical audio associated with unrest in Lebanon, they are touchingly universal in their sentiments. In OVERTHINKER, an androgenous figure curls over their knees against a barren landscape. Bisectioning of their head reveals smoke stacks churning out steam while mechanical wheels turn in their back. Although there are no other signs of life or activity, the human’s mental state is constantly revolving, spiraling, and operating. While the pandemic has stopped industries around the world, Khoury reveals the interminable capacity of the mind to endure.
Khoury is a visual artist as well as interior architect. He received a BA in Sociology and Economics from Collège des Sœurs des Saints Cœurs, Bikfaya (2013) and a BA in Interior Architecture from Alba, Université De Balamand, Dekouaneh (2016). He recently graduated with a MA in Interior Architecture from Alba (2018). Khoury has worked as part of the Beirut Art Fair team and as an interior architect at GM Architects, Beirut.