WORCESTER Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad s immersive installation Memory Gates will be on view at The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross from March 4 through April 11.
Mourad has been at Holy Cross in February as an artist in residence in collaboration with the college’s Arts Transcending Borders program.
Using his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Mourad has been creating “Memory Gates, a work imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through. The work explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory.
During Mourad’s residency, students have been invited to work alongside the artist, assisting in the execution and installation of the work as it unfolds. Meredith Fluke, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, said Our goal is for Holy Cross students to be involved directly in Kevork’s process, and to benefit from Kevork’s deeply collaborative a