Mounir Fatmi
Mounir Fatmi (born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco) is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in Paris. His multimedia practice encompasses video, installation, drawing, painting and sculpture.[1]
Work
Mounir Fatmi’s work deals with the historical matters, religious objects and their desecration, dismantling dogmas and ideologies and the relation of death with the subject of consumption.[2] His installations and films have the specificity to be produced with archaic and outdated material, such as VHS tapes.[3]
Mounir Fatmi is largely influenced by September 11 attacks. He produced a series of installations named Save Manhattan. These artworks show the Manhattan skyline including the destroyed World Trade Center towers. Save Manhattan 1 is made with books, Save Manhattan with videotapes and Save Manhattan 3 is a sound installation with speakers.[4] The ultimate contribution to this project is a video where the skyline progressively dissolves itself in distorted liquefied reflection.[5]
Many of Mounir Fatmi’s works are seen as subversive,[6] such as his Brainteaser for moderate Muslim, a series of rubix cubes painted in black with white stripes to imitate the Kaaba in Mecca.[7] As a reaction to the Arab Spring, he exhibited The Lost Spring, an installation composed of 2 brooms of 3 meters and the 22 flags of the Arab league.[8]
Publications
- Ghosting (studio mounir fatmi, 2011)
- Megalopolis (AKBank Sanat, 2010)
- Fuck the Architect (Lowave, 2009)
- Hard Head (Lowave, 2006)
- Mounir Fatmi (Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, 2006)
- Semaine 46.05 : Ecrans nois (Bulletin de semaine, 2005)
- Ovalprojet, 1999-2002 (Centre culturel le chaplin, 2002)
Awards
- Cairo Biennial Prize, 2010
- Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at the 7th Dakar Biennial in 2006
References
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