À l’occasion des Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, les jardins et terrasses de la Résidence des Pins s’ouvrent à l’univers sculptural de Ghassan Zard. En Mutation établit un dialogue entre l’un des lieux diplomatiques les plus symboliques du pays et la forêt réinventée de l’artiste, un monde hybride peuplé d’arbres dansants, de créatures métalliques, de sculptures-totems et de formes animales à mi-chemin entre nature et artifice.

Traditionally, an altar is a structure of offering and sacrifice, a threshold between presence and absence, life and death, grief and renewal. But beyond religion, altars can be understood as gestures: fragile fragments gathered into forms that insist on attention, spaces that resist disappearance and hold what cannot otherwise be held.
In this exhibition, Ghassan Zard reimagines the altar for our present, not as a site of devotion, but as a space of reckoning. Whereas his earlier works sought moments of playfulness and fleeting joy, here he turns to pain with unflinching directness, placing rupture at the centre. These altars become temporary architectures that hold grief, memory, and patience, opening spaces where fracture can be acknowledged, shared, and carried forward.

Where stems of trees, aluminum and brass become conduits for the silent conversations.
The aluminum pieces attached to the tree stems, resembling mushrooms, stand as symbols of growth, resilience and the quiet conversations that unfold beneath the forest canopy.
The walls, adorned with flat aluminum and brass pieces, present a visual symphony. Hilltops rise and fall, capturing the undulating landscapes of our natural surroundings, while clouds drift across the canvases, carrying the artist’s interpretation of the sea within their ethereal forms.
His hands, guided by an intimate understanding of the materials, mold and shape them into a visual poetry that speaks of the interconnectedness of all living things.