13 June – 20 July 2024
D'eaux, de graines et de particules lumineuses
Venue
Galerie Lilia Ben Salah, Paris
Vernissage
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00–19:00
Using bleach and ink, these ‘vision-revelations’ emerge as outcrops and superimposed sequences—fragments of memory from prison experience and pandemic confinement…
From the gallery press release Galerie Lilia Ben Salah, June 2024
" the quest to see light revealing itself "
Within the seclusion of the cell, in constellated attempts or lost stars, the same quest seems to be at work: the quest to see light revealing itself. The forms presented by the artist are not just there to be seen; they invite us to pause and take the time to capture that moment when our closed eyes begin to partially open to the world. That instant when we see the blood-reddened light behind our eyelids, and it is the lost stars. That instant when, through the thin opening, light appears in diffuse dots, and these are the constellations. That instant, finally, when light diffracts and rushes into the fissure of eyes on the verge of seeing. This moment of our birth into reality, when we are at last, as far as the eye can see. Free.
By Mohamed-Ali Berhouma — "As far as the Eye can see" (Exhibition essay, May 2024) Translated from the French by Clémence de Montgolfier
Artwork carousel
Métamorphoses 3, 2024
Sodium hypochlorite and ink on seven sheets of blotting paper and light box 23 x 112 cm (9 x 44 1/8 in.)
RETURNS
At 32Bis in Tunis, Returns follows journeys home through landscapes, architecture, and the photographic off-frame.
