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Massinissa Selmani, Série A-t-on besoin des ombres pour se souvenir? (2013 – 2015)
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Born in 1980 in Algiers, Algeria. Lives and works in Tours, France
Massinissa Selmani’s body of work harmoniously explores the drawing as a medium in order to create and depict different kinds of moving images. To achieve this, the artist resources his methods to superimposing images, drawing on top of overlays and assimilating techniques belonging to photography and film; whilst playing with transparency and the appearance and disappearance of imagery. Through these minimalistic assemblages, Selmani creates familiar yet juxtaposed social and political scenarios unlikely to happen in reality, and balances these depictions within the realms of the comical and the tragic. In a sense, he reflects and stages the daily absurdity that we experience throughout our lives.
Selmani’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia (2016); Dakar, Senegal (2016); Tours, France (2015); San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2014); Paris, France (2013); and Belgrade, Serbia (2012).(text website artist)
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Peju Alatise
Rapture Project 2013.
About:
Born in 1975 in the Nigerian city Lagos, Peju and her seven siblings were raised within a fairly traditional Muslim family. Her younger brother Layi recalls how his siblings would often grapple with their father’s religiosity.
Rapture Project, 2013.
He says Peju in particular would clash with him and other adults on topics ranging from philosophical approaches to life, to politics and religious beliefs.
Orange go to Heaven.
A young Peju was also shaped by her observations on the role of women in Nigerian society, increasingly questioning the status quo.
Desperately Labake.
The installations she creates today using materials such as cloth, beads, wood, cement and resin are a departure from her early technically skilled paintings. Peju remembers how this transition was originally rejected by what she describes as a self-appointed pseudo-intellectual art elite in Nigeria. She was advised by well-known Nigerian art curators to “stick to painting”, she says.
Smoke and Ashes.
She has been heavily influenced by her ethnicity with references to Yoruba mythology commonly found in her work.
Some Have, Some Have Not.
(quotes from article on website Aljazeera by Ijeoma Ndukwe,
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