ARTISTS
Mounir Fatmi: History Is Not Mine
19 Apr, 2013 - 01 Jun, 2013
Paradise Row is pleased to present History Is Not Mine, the first UK solo exhibition of works by Mounir Fatmi.
The immediate subject of History Is Not Mine is censorship, broadening out into the underlying theme of Fatmi's work - meaning and its deformation by power. His work is driven by the desire to evade all forms of indoctrination.
Across a wide range of media, Fatmi attempts this through the construction of highly tactical visual spaces and linguistic games that identify and foreground the violent operations of the forces of capital, politics and religion to dominate thought and language. These aestheticized and elegantly seditious provocations are designed to generate scepticism and criticality.
The show's title plays on the title of a group exhibition, History Is Mine staged last year in Toulouse where a video work by Fatmi, Technologia which combines verses of the Koran with elements inspired by Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, was removed from display following violence and rioting from certain local elements in response to the work. Shortly after, Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe censored Fatmi's video piece Sleep Al-Naim excluding the work from an exhibition on Arabic creativity.
The immediate subject of History Is Not Mine is censorship, broadening out into the underlying theme of Fatmi's work - meaning and its deformation by power. His work is driven by the desire to evade all forms of indoctrination.
Across a wide range of media, Fatmi attempts this through the construction of highly tactical visual spaces and linguistic games that identify and foreground the violent operations of the forces of capital, politics and religion to dominate thought and language. These aestheticized and elegantly seditious provocations are designed to generate scepticism and criticality.
The show's title plays on the title of a group exhibition, History Is Mine staged last year in Toulouse where a video work by Fatmi, Technologia which combines verses of the Koran with elements inspired by Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, was removed from display following violence and rioting from certain local elements in response to the work. Shortly after, Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe censored Fatmi's video piece Sleep Al-Naim excluding the work from an exhibition on Arabic creativity.
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Paradise Row is pleased to present History Is Not Mine, the first UK solo exhibition of works by Mounir Fatmi.
The immediate subject of History Is Not Mine is censorship, broadening out into the underlying theme of Fatmi's work - meaning and its deformation by power. His work is driven by the desire to evade all forms of indoctrination.
Across a wide range of media, Fatmi attempts this through the construction of highly tactical visual spaces and linguistic games that identify and foreground the violent operations of the forces of capital, politics and religion to dominate thought and language. These aestheticized and elegantly seditious provocations are designed to generate scepticism and criticality.
The show's title plays on the title of a group exhibition, History Is Mine staged last year in Toulouse where a video work by Fatmi, Technologia which combines verses of the Koran with elements inspired by Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, was removed from display following violence and rioting from certain local elements in response to the work. Shortly after, Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe censored Fatmi's video piece Sleep Al-Naim excluding the work from an exhibition on Arabic creativity.
The immediate subject of History Is Not Mine is censorship, broadening out into the underlying theme of Fatmi's work - meaning and its deformation by power. His work is driven by the desire to evade all forms of indoctrination.
Across a wide range of media, Fatmi attempts this through the construction of highly tactical visual spaces and linguistic games that identify and foreground the violent operations of the forces of capital, politics and religion to dominate thought and language. These aestheticized and elegantly seditious provocations are designed to generate scepticism and criticality.
The show's title plays on the title of a group exhibition, History Is Mine staged last year in Toulouse where a video work by Fatmi, Technologia which combines verses of the Koran with elements inspired by Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, was removed from display following violence and rioting from certain local elements in response to the work. Shortly after, Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe censored Fatmi's video piece Sleep Al-Naim excluding the work from an exhibition on Arabic creativity.
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