# Mounir Fatmi

Mounir Fatmi (Tânger, Marrocos, 1970), é artista visual, vive e trabalha entre Paris, Lille e Tânger, Ele estudou na Rijksakademie em Amsterdã.
Trabalha com vídeos, instalações, desenhos, pinturas e esculturas, e com materiais obsoletos sem futuro, critica os mecanismos ilusórios que nos ligam à tecnologia, ideologias e suas influências em uma sociedade em crise.
Em 2006, ganhou o prêmio Uriöt, em Amsterdã, o grande prêmio da Bienal de Dakar e o Prêmio da Bienal do Cairo em 2010.

## Biografia

Mounir Fatmi nasceu em Tânger em 1970. Depois de viver sua infância e adolescência no Marrocos, ele deixou seu país para aprofundar seus estudos artísticos e se estabelecer em Paris, na França. E' um artista visual que trabalha com instalações, vídeo, pintura, colagem, escultura, performance. Em suas obras usa principalmente materiais tecnológicos obsoletos e eles não são mais usados, como VHS, cabos de antena ou materiais "pobres" que são usados na vida cotidiana, materiais relacionados à linguagem, ao passado, à memória. Através de seu trabalho, ele investiga o sentido da vida, da história, trazendo uma nova visão do mundo que se destaca dos dogmas e crenças populares. Suas obras oferecem um novo ponto de vista, um alimento para o pensamento, indo além da normalidade e da banalidade da existência.
O trabalho de Mounir Fatmi foi exposto em museus, galerias e festivais na Europa, EUA, África e Ásia.
Participou de várias Bienais de Arte Contemporânea, incluindo a 52ª e 57ª Bienal de Veneza, a 5ª e 7ª Bienal de Dakar, a 10ª Bienal de Lyon e a 7ª Bienal de Arquitetura, em Shenzhen.
Ele ganhou vários prêmios, incluindo o Prêmio da Bienal de Caire, e o Grande Prêmio Léopold Sédar Senghor durante a 7ª Bienal de Dakar.

## Exposições individuais

2021
* The Observer Effect, ADN Galeria, Barcelona
2019
* The White Matter, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris
* A matter of perception, Skanstull Metro Station, Stockholm
* Keeping Faith - Keeping Drawing, Analix Forever, Geneva
* The Process, Wilde Gallery, Geneva
2018
* This is my body, Art Bartschi&Cie, Switzerland
* The Human Factor, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
* The Day of the Awakening, CDAN Museum - Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza, Huesca,
* 180° Behind Me, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg
2017
* Transition State, Officine dell'Immagine, Milano
* Peripheral Vision, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
* Ghosting, Galerie De Multiples, Paris
* (IM)possible Union, Analix Forever Gallery, Genève
* Survival Signs, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
* Le Pavillon de l’exil, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier
* Fragmented Memory, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
* Inside the Fire Circle, Lawrie Shabibi , Dubaï
* Darkening Process, Analix Forever Gallery, Genève
* Under the Skin, Maisons des Arts du Grütli, Genève
2016
* The Index and The marchine, ADN Platform, San Cugat del Vallès
* A Savage Mind, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
* Depth of Field, Labanque, Béthune
* Darkening Process, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, Marrakech
2015
* Permanent Exiles, MAMCO, Genève
* History is not mine, Metavilla, Bordeaux
* Art et Patrimoine: C'est encore la nuit, Prison Qara - Institut Français de Meknès, Morocco
* Modern Times, Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery - Florida International University, Miami Beach
* Constructing Illusion, Analix Forever, Genève
2014
* Walking on the light, CCC - Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
* Light & Fire, ADN Galeria, Barcelona
* Art of War, ADN Platform, Sant Cugat del Vallès
* They were blind, they only saw images, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
* The Kissing Circles, Analix Forever, Genève
2013
* History is Not Mine, Paradise Row, Londres
* Spot On: Mounir Fatmi, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
* Le Voyage de Claude Lévi-Strauss, Institut Français, Casablanca
* La Ligne Droite, Galerie Fatma Jellal, Casablanca
* The Blinding Light, Analix Forever, Genève
* Post Tenebras Lux, Festival A-Part, Les Baux-de-Provence
* Intersections, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
2012
* Kissing Circles, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
* Suspect Language, Goodman Gallery, Le Cap
* Oriental Accident, Lombard Freid Projects, New York
2011
* Megalopolis, AKBank Sanat, Istanbul
* Linguaggi Costituenti, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modène
* The Angel's Black Leg, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2010
* Seeing is believing, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
* The Beautiful Language, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam

## Prêmios

* 2020, Prêmio Silver Plane, Altai Bienal, Moscou
* 2014, Shortlisted Jameel Prize 3, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
* 2011, Prix de la Biennale du Caire, Cairo
* 2006, Grand prix Léopold Sédar Senghor -Dak'art, 7ème biennale de Dakar, Dakar

## Publicações
### Livros Digitais

* In Search of Paradise (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-530.html
* Hard Head (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-528.html
* Fuck Architects: Chapter 1 (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-526.html
* Between the Lines (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-524.html
* Something is Possible (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-523.html
* Art of War (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-522.html
* Light and Fire (2021) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-521.html
* Seeing is Believing (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-520.html
* Oriental Accident (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-519.html
* Intersections (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-518.html
* History is not mine (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-517.html
* Kissing Circles (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-516.html
* Suspect Language (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-514.html
* Inside the Fire Circle (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-513.html
* They were blind, they only saw images (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-511.html
* A Savage Mind (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-510.html
* The Index and The Machine (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-509.html
* Fragmented Memory (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-507.html
* Keeping Faith, Keeping Drawing (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-506.html
* Peripheral Vision (2020) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-505.html
* Transition State (2019) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-504.html
* 180° Behind Me (2019) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-500.html
* The Day of the Awakening (2019) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-499.html
* The White Matter (2019) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-496.html
* The Process (2019) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-495.html
* C'est encore la nuit (2018) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-476.html
* The Missing Show: mounir fatmi, SF Publishing (25 avril 2018) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-475.html
* Survival Signs, Studio Fatmi (September 15, 2017) http://www.mounirfatmi.com/biographie-462.html
* Ceci n'est pas un blasphème, Inculte - Dernière Marge (May 2015)

## Comunicação
### Televisão / Youtube

Métropolis, Emisión 22 de mayo de 2016 • La 2, http://www.rtve.es/television/20160512/mounir-fatmi/1350380.shtml Vernissage TV, Mounir Fatmi « Oriental Accident », NY,https://vernissage.tv/2012/03/22/mounir-fatmi-oriental-accident-lombard-freid-projects-new-york/

### Artigos de jornal

Blaire Dessent, Mounir Fatmi - Archaeology of Materials, TL Magazine, September 23rd, 2018,https://tlmagazine.com/mounir-fatmi-archaeology-of-materials/ Tarek Elhaik, Cogitation, Cultural Anthropology, April 3rd, 2018,https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1330-cogitation