アーティストとしてのキャリアをスタートさせる契機となったモノクロームの写真シリーズ作“The Classroom”は、ヒシャム・ベノフードが美術教員として勤務していた後期 4 年間に渡って制作されました。教室という密室をまるで劇場のような非現実的な空間と捉え、教師と生徒という関係を舞台監督と俳優に置き換えました。授業の合間のわずかな時間を使って行われたというこの密かな舞台劇では、不安定で窮屈な独特の違和感を感じさせる状況が意図的かつ綿密に演出されているように思えます。インタビューを終えたあとの僕自身の見解ですが、制作にあたっていた当時の混沌としたモロッコ社会で作家本人が抱えていた閉塞感や、アンフェアな政治への怒りと将来への不安といったどちらかというと負の感情がこの作品の構図やディテールの端々に投影されているなぁと感じました。結果的にこの作品がパリのGalerie VUで発表され、作家として…
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Man in Object (Continuation of the series “Man in Animal”) The idea of this series is related to the stories and tales of Malian childhood that still follow today. These are stories that work like moral lessons, stories that teach us how to behave in life, to help us understand our future and the connection of man to the object. It is through these stories that one can learn to get a…
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OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (2017) The figure of the virgin appears over and over again in this exhibition and recalls Catholic and well as Islamic iconography. Mehdi-Georges Lahlou goes about entangling codes and origins to produce hybrid icons. In Conference of the birds, the face of the Madonna is replaced by birds. The title, taken from a Persian poem of the same name written in the 12th ce…
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Born in 1986 in Casablanca. Lives and works in Marrakech and Taroudant. Self-taught multimedia artist, Mo Baala spent his childhood and his youth in the heart of the souks and bazaars of his heart town, Taroudant in southern Morocco. His passion for reading, cinema, music and philosophy, as well as his particular interest in traditional arts and crafts Moroccan, African and elsewhere consti…
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“Skin Diver” 映像作家／カチャ・アベディアン While Katya Abedian’s classmates were out celebrating the end of their high school careers in 2016, she was at home dreaming up a narrative rich with unapologetic diversity – and acceptance thereof. Now, just two years later, her cinematic dream-world has come to life. Skin Diver premiered at the Labia on the 6th of April, and stars dynamic fe…
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マラケシュにて、アフリカ写真界は独自の道へ A new museum in Morocco becomes a destination for contemporary art. モロッコに美術館が新設。現代美術のホットスポットになれるか。 By Sean O’Toole The life and work of Leila Alaoui, the celebrated Moroccan documentary photographer, looms large over Marrakech’s newest art institution. Alaoui, who at age thirty-three was shot and killed during an al-Qaeda attack in Ouagadougou, Bur…
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Öktem&Aykut is a contemporary art gallery based in Istanbul. Founded in 2014, the gallery aspires to build up bridges that formerly haven’t been built up within the Turkish contemporary art scene, to develop a certain artistic understanding that is rather organized through the theory of aesthetics, to lead a younger generation of artists and art appreciators and to strenghten the inter-generat…
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ISTANBUL’s latest creative cultures all gather in SALT SALT explores critical and timely issues in visual and material culture, and cultivates innovative programs for research and experimental thinking. Assuming an open attitude and establishing itself as a site of learning and debate SALT aims to challenge, excite and provoke its visitors by encouraging them to offer critique and res…
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