Kader Attia
By: editor, Nicole Schweizer
Contributors: Schweizer, Nicole, editor; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9783037644126
Subjects: Modern Art; Algerian Art; Installations (Art); Exhibitions; French Art
Description: This monograph gives a comprehensive overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Kader Attia (*1970 in Dugny, Seine-Saint-Denis, lives and works in Berlin and Algiers) over the past 15 years, using media as varied as installation, video, photography, and collage. It highlights the unique and powerful ways in which Attia addresses the global entanglement of culture, politics, and identity. Attia's artistic research is informed by his own experience of moving back and forth as a child between France and Algeria, between the Christian Occident and the Islamic Maghreb, and later by his years spent in Venezuela and the Congo. His work tackles, in a very explicit yet poetic way, the entangled relationship between Western thought and non-Western cultures, particularly through architecture, the human body, history, culture, and religion.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Kader Attia. Les Blessures sont la Injuries are here" at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, May 22-August 30, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: After-flow: Kader Attia's postcolonial topologies / Kobena Mercer; title: Bodies, spaces, and artifacts: montage and reparation as forms of history / Noémie Étienne; title: Seeing the world from a different perspective: Kader Attia in conversation / with Brigitte Derlon & Monique Jeudy-Ballini