Painter
Mounir Fatmi
Antenna cables, typewriters, VHS tapes: Mounir Fatmi builds his work from what our technological civilisation discards, to question language, memory and the images that govern us.
The artist
Career
Born in Tangier in 1970, Mounir Fatmi spent his childhood in Casabarata, where his mother sold children’s clothes in the flea market, a place he would later call his first art school and a “museum in ruins”. At seventeen he left for Rome to study nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts, then trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He lives and works between Paris, Lille and Tangier.
An archaeology of the present
Video, installation, drawing and sculpture serve a single inquiry, which he places under the triad of language, architecture and machine. Obsolete media become the archives of a future already outdated; calligraphy, saw blades and painted Rubik’s cubes question the transmission of knowledge, the power of images and the ideologies that bind us to them.
Landmarks
- 1993 — First prize, 3rd Biennial of Young Moroccan Painting
- 2006 — Grand prize, Dak’Art, Dakar Biennale
- 2007 — “Sans histoire”, Musée Picasso, Vallauris
- 2007 and 2017 — Venice Biennale (52nd edition; Tunisian Pavilion, 57th edition)
- 2010 — Award, Cairo Biennial
- 2013 — Shortlisted, Jameel Prize 3, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2014 — “They were blind, they only saw images”, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- 2016 — Setouchi Triennale, Japan
- 2018 — “Le Pavillon de l’exil”, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier
- Biennales of Sharjah, Gwangju, Lyon, Seville, Bamako and the Auckland Triennial
Collections
- Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
- Louvre Abu Dhabi
- Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
- Brooklyn Museum, New York
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda
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