When attempts to revolt are confiscated by counter-revolutions or conflicts, the Arab world reveals the feeling of living under siege. This is where artists rise like sentinels, witnesses of the present in a disoriented world. They know how to invent other temporalities despite the socio-political upheavals. Through the games of documentary and fiction, the works are theaters that expose the tragic consciousness of time while putting it at a fair distance.
Based on a selection of works from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) from the Arab world and its diaspora, the exhibition invites the viewer to a journey through its photographic and audiovisual collections, here represented by 21 emerging artists.
Commissioner Pascale Cassagnau, head of the audiovisual and new media fund of Cnap Camille Leprince, researcher at Cnap Françoise Cohen, director of IMA-Tourcoing
The artists exhibited Collectif ABOUNADDARA Basma ALSHARIF Ismaïl BAHRI Yto BARRADA Taysir BATNIJI Raed BAWAYAH Safia BENHAIM Hicham BERRADA Mohamed BOUROUISSA Ilias EL FARIS Abdessamad EL MONTASSIR, Hassen FERHANI Jellel GASTELI Joana HADJITHOMAS et Khalil JOREIGE Karim KAL Randa MAROUFI Mehdi MEDDACI Dania REYMOND Zineb SEDIRA Hocine ZAOURAR
Lenders Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris
Exhibition in partnership with the Centre national des arts plastiques Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains France 3 Hauts-de-france