Meriem Bennani
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This monochromatic artwork employs a combination of abstract and naturalistic elements. The visual composition features a textured, rocky landscape in the upper portion, transitioning into a fluid, reflective body of water in the lower half. The artist has utilized a nuanced grayscale palette, emphasizing the interplay of light and shadow to create a sense of depth and movement. The overall effect suggests a tranquil, dreamlike ambiance, inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between the natural and the ethereal. The artist's intention may have been to explore the duality of the physical and the metaphysical realms through this evocative visual narrative. ...
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Meriem Bennani
1988, MoroccanMeriem Bennani’s work occupies the abstracted, speculative dimension of science fiction. Bennani became interested in the concept and feasibility of teleportation, as well as its relationship with issues of migration, during 2016. She considers how teleportation looks within the lens of geopolitics and, if bodies were able to teleport for one day, where would they go? How would this process be policed, and if teleporters were intercepted by law enforcement, where would they be held captive? In her films, Bennani mythologises and digitally renders an island in the Atlantic that would act as a ‘temporary’ holding area for captives. She fictionalises and weaves together a picture of the island’s ecology, visually realising the birth of a new culture that has emerged from the melting pot of diasporas held on the island. Bennani critically engages with the trauma and dystopia of border-crossing by creating and developing an elaborate and prescient analogy. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
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New York City, Los Angeles, BrusselsC L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...