Mounir Fatmi
1970 (Tanger)
Living in : Paris, Tanger
Working in : Paris, Tanger
Artist's webSite
His art points to the relationship between the individual and the group and at the same time raises the question of censorship, whether social or religious. He constructs political and existential spaces and language games. His work deals directly, on different types of media, with oriental culture in general and the Muslim religion in particular. He chooses to deal with its particularities, its history, its manifestations and its position within a global geopolitical context, sometimes considered through the media prism. Mounir Fatmi's work questions and overturns established systems by opening up multiple paths (there is often talk of networks in his work). His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures reveal our ambiguities, doubts, fears and desires. At first sight, exotic or unknown, they metamorphose, with an almost arrogant obviousness, into universal objects. In this sense, they mark the advent of a form of global consciousness rather than that of a personal struggle.
Living in : Paris, Tanger
Working in : Paris, Tanger
Artist's webSite
His art points to the relationship between the individual and the group and at the same time raises the question of censorship, whether social or religious. He constructs political and existential spaces and language games. His work deals directly, on different types of media, with oriental culture in general and the Muslim religion in particular. He chooses to deal with its particularities, its history, its manifestations and its position within a global geopolitical context, sometimes considered through the media prism. Mounir Fatmi's work questions and overturns established systems by opening up multiple paths (there is often talk of networks in his work). His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures reveal our ambiguities, doubts, fears and desires. At first sight, exotic or unknown, they metamorphose, with an almost arrogant obviousness, into universal objects. In this sense, they mark the advent of a form of global consciousness rather than that of a personal struggle.
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Artist's movies
Mounir Fatmi
Artiste : Mounir Fatmi
Titre : Save Manhattan 03 Sound architecture
Production : studiofatmi
Projet : mounir fatmi
Son : Dave Lacombe / mounir fatmi / Benoit Hénon
Durée : 5.02 mn
Année : 2004
Artist's exhibitions
6e Biennale de Marrakech - Quoi de neuf là ?
24/02/2016 - 08/05/2016
(Marrakech) Palais Badii
24/02/2016 - 08/05/2016
(Marrakech) Palais Badii
Le Maroc contemporain
15/10/2014 - 01/03/2015
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
15/10/2014 - 01/03/2015
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love : Oum Kalthoum and Lee Nan-Young
20/05/2014 - 13/07/2014
(Gwangju (Corée du Sud)) Gwangju Museum Of Art
20/05/2014 - 13/07/2014
(Gwangju (Corée du Sud)) Gwangju Museum Of Art
La disparition des lucioles - Collection Lambert en Avignon
18/05/2014 - 25/11/2014
(Avignon) Prison Sainte-Anne
18/05/2014 - 25/11/2014
(Avignon) Prison Sainte-Anne
African Way
05/04/2014 - 01/06/2014
(Thonon-les-Bains) Chapelle de la Visitation – Espace d’art contemporain
05/04/2014 - 01/06/2014
(Thonon-les-Bains) Chapelle de la Visitation – Espace d’art contemporain
BIAC Martinique
22/11/2013 - 15/01/2014
(Fort-de-France) Bibliothèque Schoelcher
22/11/2013 - 15/01/2014
(Fort-de-France) Bibliothèque Schoelcher
La Route bleue - Périples et beautés de la Méditerranée à la Chine
27/09/2013 - 09/02/2014
(Bruxelles) Villa Empain
27/09/2013 - 09/02/2014
(Bruxelles) Villa Empain
Ici, Ailleurs
12/01/2013 - 31/03/2013
(Marseille) Friche la Belle de mai
12/01/2013 - 31/03/2013
(Marseille) Friche la Belle de mai
25 ans de créativité arabe
16/10/2012 - 03/02/2013
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
16/10/2012 - 03/02/2013
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
Mounir Fatmi - Architecture Now
08/04/2011 - 07/05/2011
(Mantes La Jolie) Espace culturel multimédia Le Chaplin
08/04/2011 - 07/05/2011
(Mantes La Jolie) Espace culturel multimédia Le Chaplin
PAX
12/03/2011 - 04/06/2011
(Senlis) Fondation Francès
12/03/2011 - 04/06/2011
(Senlis) Fondation Francès
Told/Untold/Retold
30/12/2010 - 28/05/2011
(Doha) Mathaf – Arab Museum of Modern Art
30/12/2010 - 28/05/2011
(Doha) Mathaf – Arab Museum of Modern Art
Xe biennale de Lyon : le spectacle du quotidien
16/09/2009 - 03/01/2010
(Lyon ) La Sucrière
16/09/2009 - 03/01/2010
(Lyon ) La Sucrière
Traversées
16/05/2009 - 16/06/2009
(Rabat) Galeries Bab Rouah et Bab El Kébir
16/05/2009 - 16/06/2009
(Rabat) Galeries Bab Rouah et Bab El Kébir
artist_books
L’Art du Moyen-Orient
Saeb Eigner Toucan Enfin un ouvrage d’importance proposant une vue d’ensemble de la création de ces dernières années dans le monde arabe et en Iran ! En effet, celui-ci rend compte de la nouvelle donne qui voit cette région rejouer un rôle de premier plan dans l’échiquier mondial de l’art. De Téhéran à Casablanca, en passant par Dubaï, Beyrouth et Le Caire, une volonté co ...