Painter
Simohammed Fettaka
Archive images, collages, films and sound pieces: Simohammed Fettaka takes apart the iconic images of our collective memory to ask how they build the real, and who they serve.
The artist
Career
Born in Tangier in 1981, Simohammed Fettaka came to art through cinema: in 2007 he attended the summer university of La Fémis in Paris and began making experimental videos. He founded the Cinema Nachia festival at the Cinémathèque de Tanger, then completed a master’s degree in the Experimentation in Arts and Politics programme (SPEAP) directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po Paris.
The politics of images
His practice spans photographic series, collage, installation, performance and sound. Starting from collective memory, he questions the political aesthetics carried by images and invites each viewer to reconsider their own sense of self through visual experience. For the cine-concert “Mystère de l’Ouest”, produced by the Centre cinématographique marocain and the Institut français du Maroc, he edited archive footage performed live by nine French and Moroccan musicians, and toured it through Morocco’s main cities.
Landmarks
- 2007 — Summer university, La Fémis, Paris
- Founder of the Cinema Nachia festival, Cinémathèque de Tanger
- Master’s degree, SPEAP programme under Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris
- Public art commission in Bordeaux, curated by Catherine David
- Exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), 21er Haus (Vienna), M HKA (Antwerp) and the Old Truman Brewery (London)
- Residencies at the Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Villa Romana (Florence), Kër Thiossane (Dakar), Trankat (Tetouan) and Quartier am Hafen (Cologne)
Collections
- MuCEM, Marseille
- Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Paris
- Private collections
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