Kader Attia
Born in 1970, Dugny, France
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, Algiers, Algeria
Overview
Kader Attia has been exploring through an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to research the perspective that societies have on their history, especially as regards experiences of deprivation and suppression, violence and loss, and how this affects the evolving of nations and individuals — each of them being connected to collective memory. The artist's social-cultural research has led him to the notion of repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symb...Read more