Mounir Fatmi1970-

mounir fatmi was born in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1970. He spent his childhood at the flea market in the Casabarata district, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. An environment that multiplies waste and end-of-life items to excess. The artist later saw this childhood as his first artistic education and compared this flea market to a ruined museum or a barometer allowing him to understand society. He then questions his role as an artist in a society in crisis.

From these visions will emerge the essential aspects of his artistic work. Influenced by the idea of dead media and the collapse of industrial and consumerist civilization, he places the work of art between Archive and Archeology.

Under the prism of the Language, Architecture and Machine trinity, he questions the obsolescence of materials such as antenna cables, old typewriters, photocopiers or VHS tapes. His artistic research constitutes the development of a thought on the history of technologies and their influences in popular culture.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

Biography

1970 born in Tangier, Morocco
lives and works in Paris and Tangier
1987 Scola libera del Nudo, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome
1990 School of Fine Arts, Casablanca
2006 - 2007 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

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Solo Exhibitions

2017 Peripheral Vision, Art Front Galley, Tokyo
2016 Depth of Field, Labanque, Béthune
Darkening Process, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, Marrakech, Morocco
2015 History is not mine, Metavilla, Bordeaux
Permanent Exiles, MAMCO, Geneva
Art et Patrimoine: C'est encore la nuit, Prison Qara - Institut Français de Meknès, Morroco
Modern Times, Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery - Florida International University, Miami Beach
Constructing Illusion, Analix Forever, Geneva
2014 Walking on the light, CCC - Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
Light & Fire, ADN Galeria, Barcelona
Art of War, ADN Platform, Sant Cugat del Vallès
They were blind, they only saw images, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
The Kissing Circles, Analix Forever, Geneva

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Group Exhibitions

2018 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Niigata, Japan
2017 Diaspora Now! – Contemporary Arts around the Homeland, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
57th International Venice Biennial, Italy
2016 Fundamental, 5th Mediations Biennale 2016, Poznan
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Awashima Community Area, Japan
Al-tiba9, Bardo National Museum, Algiers
Utopies, Espoirs, Colères, L'Été Photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure
Nothing but blue skies. Arles 2016 - Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Expérience sonore, Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes, Troyes
Dark Chapters, Rotor, Graz
3AJEL, Le Temps Réel, Talan, Tunis
Lady Dior As Seen By, Langen Foundation, Neuss
En garde, l’art s’engage !, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar
Le temps de l'audace et de l'engagement - De leur temps (5), Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
Looking at the World Around You. Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid
Le Sens de la Peine, La Terrasse, Nanterre
Merchant of Dreams, Brandts & Viborg Kunsthal, Odense & Viborg, Denmark


2015 I Love You, Fondazione VIDEOINSIGHT, Turin, Italy
Unprotected Zone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Le monde selon..., FRAC Franche Comté , Besançon
Les Fragments de l'Amour, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville
Memory & Oblivion, Station, Beirut
Art et Prison - We only exist when we create, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul
Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki
The Migrant (Moving) Image, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
Street Culture, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts de Châteauroux, Châteauroux
Tolerance, The 2nd International Bodrum Biennial, Bodrum
Créer c'est résister, Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, Lyon
Jameel Prize 3, The National Library, Singapore
Global Control and Censorship, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Je me souviens, La Traverse - centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, Alfortville
Seins à Dessein, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne
Who said tomorrow doesn't exist?, 1st Trio Biennial, Rio de Janeiro
A REPUBLIC OF ART, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Summertime... and the living is easy, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke-Heist
Le Point de Fuite de l'Histoire, Festival Photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure, France
Face 2 Face, Festival A-Part, Les Baux-de-Provence
Handle with Care, Ostrale '15, Dresden
Diverse works: Director's Choice, 1997-2015, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Jameel Prize 3, Sharjah Museum, Sharjah
Fotofest 2014: Views from the inside, ADMAF, Abu Dhabi
Passages, parages; visages, paysages, Musée Bank Al-Maghrib, Rabat
Je me souviens du génocide arménien, Galerie Sobering, Paris
Africa and its shadow, Marta Massaioli Arte Contemporanea, Fabriano
You love me, you love me not, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto
Traces of the Future, MMP+, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, Marrakech
Test Exposure, 16th International Media Art Biennial WRO, Wroclaw
FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out - Sextant &+, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
Detras del Muro, Collateral project to the 12th Havana Biennial, La Havana
All the World's a mosque, Théâtre de Carthage - Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis
Corps recomposés. Greffe et art contemporain, Le Scriptorial d'Avranches, Avranches
Elogio de la fatiga, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona
HIWAR - inaugural exhibition, AMOCA, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art, Sakhnin

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