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Mother Language

2017 Steel blade and cut outs Work: 150 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Coma Manifesto 01

2017 Steel Work: 170 x 90 x 60 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Coma Manifesto 02

2017 Steel Work: 170 x 90 x 60 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Weight

2017 Found objects Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

Circles 09

2013 Coaxial antenna cable on plywood and plexi-case Work: 125 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Visible Side of the King

2017 Pigment print on fine art paper 30 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

History is not mine

2013 Pigment prints on fine art paper Work (each): 46 x 70 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Paradox

2013-2014 Machine in steel, Arabic calligraphy and engine Work: 160 x 120 x 75 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Calligraphy of Fire 01

2012 Steel caligraphies and clamps Work: 42 x 48 x 48 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Blinding Light

2013 Print on mirror Work: 103 x 150 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Roots 01 - triptych

2016 Coaxial antenna cable and staples Work (each): 220 x 122 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Calligraphy of Fire, tribute to Brion Gysin

2012 Steel calligraphy, clamps, wooden table 270 x 75 x 120cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Oil Oil Oil Oil

2012 65 agals and glossy acrylic paint Size variable - 250 x 300 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Skyline

2007 VHS, magnetic tape Variable Available on Request Add to My Selection

Underneath

2007 Wooden Table Available on Request Add to My Selection

500 Meters of Silence

2004-2005 Coaxial antenna cable, saw-horses, white textile, wall painting, soundtrack Available on Request Add to My Selection

Propaganda 02 - diptych

2012 Glycero on VHS Work (each): 83.5 x 150 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Propaganda 04 - diptych

2012 Glycero on VHS Work (each): 83.5 x 150 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Across the Moon

2017 HD film Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

History is not Mine

2013 Video Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

Darkening Process

2014 HD colour and stereo film Available on Request Add to My Selection

Sleep

2011 HD black and white video on Blu-ray DVD Available on Request Add to My Selection

Modern Times: A History of the Machine, The Fall

2010-2012 Video Available on Request Add to My Selection

God is Dead

2007 HD black and white silent film Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

mounir fatmi was born in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1970. When he was four, his family moved to Casa-blanca. At the age of 17, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Acadaemy of Arts, and then at the Casablanca art school, and finally at the Rijksakad-emie in Amsterdam.

He spent most of his childhood at the flea market of Casabarata, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tangiers, where his mother sold children’s clothes. Such an environment produces vast amounts of waste and worn-out common use objects. The artist now considers this childhood to have been his first form of artistic education, and compares the flea market to a museum in ruin. This vision also serves as a metaphor and expresses the essential aspects of his work. Influenced by the idea of de-funct media and the collapse of the industrial and consumerist society, he develops a conception of the status of the work of art located somewhere between Archive and Archeology.

By using materials such as antenna cable, typewriters and VHS tapes, mounir fatmi elaborates an experimental archeology that questions the world and the role of the artist in a society in crisis. He twists its codes and precepts through the prism of a trinity comprising Architecture, Language and Machine. Thus, he questions the limits of memory, language and communication while reflecting upon these obsolescent materials and their uncertain future. mounir fatmi’s artistic research consists in a reflection upon the history of technology and its influence on popular culture. Consequently, one can also view mounir fatmi’s current works as future archives in the making. Though they represent key moments in our contemporary history, these technical materials also call into question the transmission of knowledge and the suggestive power of images and criticize the illusory mechanisms that bind us to technology and ideologies.

Since 2000, Mounir fatmi’s installations have been selected for several biennials, the 52nd and 57th Venice Biennales, the 8th Sharjah Biennale, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennales, the 2nd Seville Biennale, the 5th Gwangju Biennale, the 10th Lyon Biennale, the 5th Auckland Triennial, the 10th and 11th Bamako Bien-nales, the 7th Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, the Setouchi Triennial and the Echigo-Tsumari Trienni-al in Japan. His work has been presented in numerous personal exhibits, at the Migros Museum, Zur-ich. MAMCO, Geneva. Picasso Museum La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris. AK Bank Foundation, Istan-bul. Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf and at the Gothenburg Konsthall. He has also participated in several group exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Palais de Tokyo, Paris. MAXXI, Rome. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. MMOMA, Moscow. Mathaf, Doha, Hayward Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and at Nasher Mu-seum of Art, Durham.

He has received several prizes, including the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam, the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at the 7th Dakar Biennale in 2006, as well as the Cairo Biennale Prize in 2010.

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V&A Museum-Jameel Prize

May 2020

Exhibitions

How To Disappear

14 March - 25 June 2020

Acts of Reading / 2019

25 May - 13 July 2019

Narrative Means / 2018

02 June - 14 July 2018

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mounir fatmi | Group Exhibition | Christie’s (London)

Posted 02 November 2020

Shirin Neshat and mounir fatmi particiate in Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Posted 06 February 2020

mounir fatmi on group exhibitions in France, Sweden and Belgium

Posted 14 October 2019

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Press

TL Magazine: mounir fatmi 'Experimental Archives'

Mounir Fatmi / Art Radar / December 2018

Mounir Fatmi / tlmagazine.com / September 2018

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