THE OFFICER
2018
75 x 36 x 20 cm
Clay, aluminum, rivets, electrical wires, mortar, a flat hairpin
About Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" (1919), THE OFFICER is a satirical self-portrait depicting the artist's utopia.
Photographie: Marie Aimée Fattouche
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
ITÉRATIVE
2024
from left to right
124 x 39 x 39 cm
145 x 39 x 39 cm
122 x 39 x 39 cm
Clay, zinc, tin
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
RELIQUES
2024
80 x 105 x 15 cm
Clay, zinc, tin
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
EL ETNEN
2022
90 x 155 x 325 cm
Clay, zinc, brass, threaded rods, bolts, rivets
"EL ETNEN witness the artist's interest in fables and their imagination throughout ages and geographies – Ésope, La Fontaine, and the Bible are evoked here. Objects, and consequently beings, strive to transcend their contingent condition to live and travel together. Endowed with a new malleability, clay and metals create interdependencies. The artist emphasizes the possibilities of interaction between strength and fragility. How can we transform and evolve by negotiating a shared social and territorial mobility? Why not be friends with those who are stronger or wealthier than oneself? How can we challenge what we have been taught? The artwork defies the perception of received ideas."
(Text written by MAMC+ St Etienne)
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
EL ETNEN (detail)
2022
90 x 155 x 325 cm
Clay, zinc, brass, threaded rods, bolts, rivets
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
ODDS ARE
2021
50 x 75 x 25 cm
Clay, zinc, steel mesh, nuts, threaded rods
ODDS ARE is an installation composed of several sculptures. The basket evokes the African tradition of weaving, this container facilitating travel, protecting privacy. Each basket woven in zinc, a material used for the roofs of Paris, becomes protection and armor, a storyteller of bodily narratives.
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
NOUS INFINIR MON AMOUR
2024
75 x 405 x 37 cm
Zinc, brass, tin, clay
ODDS ARE
2021
90 x 80 x 90 cm
Clay, zinc, brass, rivets, nuts, washers, threaded rods.
Photographie: Pablo Saguez
ODDS ARE
2021
120 x 75 x 60 cm
Clay, zinc.
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
Photographie: Romain Fonsanou
MERCI
2024
205 x 170 x 200 cm
Clay, zinc, brass, tin
Photographie: Marie Aimée Fattouche
WAHSHANI
link to video documentation (00:00:23)
2019
82 x 130 x 53 cm
Aluminum, jesmonite, threaded rods, rivets, nuts
WAHSHANI questions our permeability. It narrates the tension between different compiled identities, the artist translates the plurality of her affiliations.
Photographie: Caroline Streck
LA VERTICALE DU BAÎLLEMENT (THE YAWNERS)
2020
32 x 17 x 12 cm
Clay