Samir Laghouati-Rashwan
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This minimalist contemporary artwork features a simple composition with a rectangular photographic image suspended from a chain. The image appears to depict a group of people, though their identities are not clearly discernible. The overall style is stark and conceptual, with the use of chains and the juxtaposition of the image and the dark, sculptural element below creating a sense of tension and ambiguity. The artist's intention behind this piece may be to explore themes of surveillance, power structures, or the fragmentation of modern society. ...
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Samir Laghouati-Rashwan
1992 , French-Moroccan-EgyptianSamir Laghouati-Rashwan (lives and works in Marseille, FR) is a French-Moroccan-Egyptian artist and performer. He is a graduate from Marseille-Méditerranée National Higher Institute for Artistic Education - INSEAMM (Marseille, FR) in 2020. Samir Laghouati-Rashwan is an artist who creates narratives from archival work, using media such as film, photography and sculpture. His work explores the politics of space and bodies, with a particular focus on representations of the Other, the body and race in mediated cultural productions and institutional art spaces. With a tone that oscillates between amusement and vulnerability, he traces marginalized or forgotten histories and explores geographical displacement and linguistic reappropriation as testimony to systems of domination. His installations are characterized by fluorescent and acid colors, creating situations both realistic and phantasmagorical. ...