Latifa Echakhch tends to produce installation pieces that are in direct connection with the space in which they are presented, thereby blending personal, multicultural, historical and sociological references.
For Lyon, the artist will take over an entire floor of the museum, some 1000 m2 and create an itinerary made up of a succession of “personal landscapes” just as image stills. Laps, or suspended time, the interval, the between-time.
«For Lyon, the general idea for the exhibition developed around notions of the stage and memory, of time suspended or long gone.» Latifa Echakhch
This exhibition is organized with the support of Galerie kamel mennour
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm
On the 1st floor of the museum
The artist
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Nom de l'artisteLatifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch was born in 1974 in El Khnansa (Morocco). She lives and works in Martigny (Switzerland).
Latifa Echakhch came to France at the age of 3 but has lived for must of her live in Switzerland. Hers is a multi-referential work, just like her personal background, her travels and her eclectic centres of interest. Latifa Echakhch’s oeuvres create a complex set of signs, symbols, patterns and clues… Her work encourages the viewer to go beyond a single interpretation, playing on the contrary with the multiplicity of meanings and questioning the status of the individual faced with globality.
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Latifa Echakhch encourages us to go beyond simple appearances and the simplistic reading that is too often imposed on us by contemporary society and the media; she invites us to see the history of the world through its minute details which will allow us new insights, perspectives and readings. She is inventing a new kind of poetry.
The artist calls upon geography and the notion of culture, just as she uses personal or collective history to place them at the heart of a social-political debate.
Her “language” is sensitive but surprisingly powerful in apparent contradiction with her desire to use modest materials, such as sugar, tea glasses, carpets, stencils and food colouring agents.
« The objects and materials that I use have been chosen for their banal and easily-recognizable character, they allow me to reveal artistic actions that can be easily understood, thereby highlighting the critical flaws or rifts that surround us. […] I’m particularly attached to the poetic dimension of the artistic action, because the poetry that interests me is that which deconstructs the sensitive. Such an approach allows for a permanent critical questioning. » Latifa Echakhch
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Titre
Ink on canvas
The inks on canvas, Tambours, [Drums], are the result of a technically painstaking and ingenious process. By means of a drip system, the black Indian ink is allowed to fall onto the canvas placed on the floor for a period of time determined by the artist. The falling drops create a uniform spatter pattern but progressively form an imperfect ink sphere.
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Hats
Mer d’encre [Sea of Ink] is an installation of 80 black bowler hats placed upside down and scattered on the floor, which are filled curiously with black ink. The hats are arranged according the artist’s own map and evoke the absence of bodies, wandering and death. The bowler hats are suggestive of Magritte, Chaplin or indeed, British spy John Steed.
Informations supplémentaire programmation MAC
360° views of the exhibition
Catalogs
Catalogue Latifa Echakhch
Date created: 07/13/2020
Changed date: 07/13/2020
Latifa Echakhch a choisi de réaliser un livre d’artiste qui rassemble son univers visuel autour de vues de l’exposition et d’une série de notes et commentaires personnels.
Co-édition mac LYON / kamel mennour
125 pages, 35 €
