Walid Raad
dal 22/5/2014 al 13/9/2014
Segnalato da
22/5/2014
Walid Raad
Carre' d'Art Musee d'art contemporain, Nimes
Preface. The exhibition covers two of his long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989-2004) - concentrated on the political, social, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of the wars in Lebanon - and Scratching on Things I could Disavow (2007-ongoing) - engaging the emergence of new art economies and museums in the Arab world.
Walid Raad’s first major exhibition in a French museum covers two of his long-term projects: The Atlas Group
(1989-2004) and Scratching on Things I could Disavow (2007-ongoing).
The Atlas Group (1989 - 2004) was a project Raad initiated in 1989 - or so his title suggests - and
concentrated on the political, social, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of the wars in Lebanon. The Atlas
Group (1989 – 2004) comprises an archive of found and created visual, recorded and written documents Raad
attributed to historical and imaginary characters. The Atlas Group (1989 - 2004) is also an enquiry into the
documentary process itself, into the kinds of facts that can constitute historical narratives.
Since 2007, Walid Raad has been developing another project titled Scratching on things I could disavow. His
project in part engages the emergence of new art economies and museums in the Arab world, the increase in
the visibility of Arab artists, patrons and collectors, as well as the marked interest expressed by Western
countries and institutions in setting up annexes of major western museums (Louvre and Guggenheim) in the
Middle East. Moreover and by leaning on Jalal Toufic’s writings, and more specifically his concept of the “The
withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster,” Raad also considers the short and long-term material and
immaterial effects of the various wars that have consumed the Middle East over the past few decades. Raad’s
works address these less visible and traumatic (non-psychological) effects, and their profound impact on
tradition.
Exhibition coproduced with Museo MADRE, Napoli
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PROJECT ROOM
FAHD BURKI
23 May – 14 September 2014
Fahd Burki’s work is based on constructing a personal mythology of symbolic archetypes that eschews
chronological categorization. His formalistic approach is marked by a strong graphic sensibility and a tendency
to reduce his ideas to their most essential elements. His static totemic composites oscillate between body and
architecture alluding to states of being, while closed forms and carefully observed symmetry signals an
interiorization of possibility, a kind of subjective unity that is only possible in fantasy; the fantasy of
omnipotence. Burki’s mythological elsewhere treads the vast terrain between primitivism and science fiction,
always searching for the ideal configuration; a universal monumentalism.
Fahd Burki was born in Lahore (Pakistan) in 1981. He lives in Lahore. He is graduated from the National College of Arts Lahore, and the Royal Academy of London. He is represented by Grey Noise gallery in Dubai and won the John Jones Award 2013 (Art Dubai).
Exhibition organized in collaboration with the John Price Jones (London).
Carré d’Art. Level + 2. On the level of the permanent collection. Admission free
Image: The Atlas Group (1989-2004), I Might Die Before I Get A Rifle_Device I, 1989, inkjket print. Courtesy Gallery Sfeir-Semler (Hamburg / Beirut). © Walid Raad
Contact for this exhibition : Delphine Verrières-Gaultier - Carré d'Art
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