Variations Beirut Carrond is a series of drawings with blue and pink markers. Maud Louvrier Clerc deploys in a calligraphic gesture arabesques of her fetish motif, the carround, fusion of a half-square and a half-round. In a game of mirror or repetition, the stroke becomes refined or enlarged. From round, she removed the square base with its two right angles. 

These drawings are inspired by the composition "Beirut" by Ibrahim Maalouf that the artist particularly likes. The visual artist is deeply shaken by the balance and radicality of the fusion operated by the French-Lebanese composer who plunges her into a semi-trance. The musical dramaturgy of this artist is an incarnation for the artist of the beauty of the marriage of opposites, between classical music and jazz. She evokes for her the harmony of large metropolises, such as Paris or New York where her heterogeneous communities live in harmony every day. The removal of the square base symbolizes the disappearance of the ground, that is to say, borders, facilitating encounters.

This series wishes to insist on the reality of the peaceful fusion that is distilled within society. Have civilizations ever been so merged in the history of humanity? In connection with her questioning of identity, Maud Louvrier Clerc evokes with this series the beauty of mixed marriages, and more particularly that between East and West.