Mounir Fatmi

Mounir Fatmi

BornNationalityBased In
1970MoroccanParis
Biography

mounir fatmi was born in 1970 in Tangiers, Morocco. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Rome, at the Casablanca Art School in Morocco and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He lives and works between Spain and Morocco. Influenced by the idea of obsolete media and the collapse of industrial and consumerist civilization, fatmi reflects on the status of art as something between archive and archaeology. He uses superannuated materials such as antenna cables, old typewriters or VHS cassettes and works on the notion of experimental archaeology by examining the artist’s role in a society in crisis. He plays on the codes and precepts of the latter under the prism of the trinity of language, architecture, and machine. In this way, he questions the limits of memory, language and communication while reflecting on materials that are becoming obsolete and have uncertain futures. The artistic research of mounir fatmi constitutes a thought on the history of technologies and their influence on popular culture. Although they mark critical moments in our contemporary history, the technical materials used by the artist also challenge the transfer of knowledge, the suggestive power of images and criticize the illusory mechanisms that link us to technology and ideologies. ...

Selected Artworks
Biennals
Dak’Art2018 - Dakar
Venice Biennial2017 - Venice
Trio Biennial2015 - Rio de Janeiro
La Biennale de Lyon2015 - Lyon
Bienal de La Habana2015 - Havana
Trio Biennial2015 - Rio de Janeiro
Fotofest Biennale2014 - Houston
La Biennale de Lyon2013 - Lyon
Marrakech Biennale2012 - Marrakesh
Venice Biennial2011 - Venice
Venice Biennial2008 - Venice
Dak’Art2006 - Dakar
Gwangju Biennial2004 - Gwangju
Bienal de La Habana2003 - Havana
Dak’Art2000 - Dakar
Mediations Biennale1999 - Poznań
Venice Biennial1999 - Venice
Sharjah Biennale1999 - Sharjah
La Biennale de Lyon1999 - Lyon
Athens Biennale1999 - Athens
Dak’Art1999 - Dakar
Mediterranean Biennale1999
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal1999
Thessaloniki Biennale1999 - Thessaloníki
Biennale Bamako1999 - Bamako
Biennale de Dakar1999 - Dakar
Mediations Biennale1999 - Poznań
Guangzhou Triennial1999 - Guangzhou
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