Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Proposée pour la première dois à Londres, cette installation vidéo en noir et blanc met en scène un personnage cherchant à taper à la machine le titre au moyen de marteaux. Seul le ruban est rouge, laissant penser que le texte s’affiche en lettres de sang, dans un télescopage de « la beauté de la phrase à écrire avec la violence et la difficulté de sa réalisation. »

Born 1970, Tangier, Morocco
Lives and works in Paris, France mounir fatmi`s work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, in the Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland, at the Picasso Museum, war and peace, Vallauris, at the FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, at the Contemporary Art Center Le Parvis, at the Fondazione Collegio San Caro, Modena, at the AK Bank Foundation in Istanbul, and at the Museum Kunst Palast in Duesseldorf. He participated in several collective shows at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, N.B.K., Berlin, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, the Hayward Gallery, London, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. His installations have been selected in biennials such as the 52nd and 54th Venice Biennial, the 8th biennial of Sharjah, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennial, the 2nd Seville Biennial, the 5th Gwangju Biennial and the 10th Lyon Biennial, the 5th Auckland Triennial and Fotofest 2014, Houston. Mounir Fatmi was awarded by several prize such as the Cairo Biennial Prize in 2010, the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam and the Grand Prize Leopold Sedar Senghor of the 7th Dakar Biennial in 2006