No Pasara
This exhibition is being presented to commemorate the death of the young French-Moroccan photographer and video artist from injuries suffered in an attack carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on January 15, 2016. Thirty people died in the attack, six of whom were aid workers from Quebec. She had gone there on a photographic assignment for Amnesty International to produce a reportage on women's rights.
The Appeal of Materials
Vehicles for both experimentation and representation, the works grouped here remind us that the history of art is closely linked to that of its materials. The enrichment and the greater diversity in respect to the choice of media seen since the avant-garde movements of the 1920s is also a feature of many contemporary artists' practices. While some of them set up possibilities for a direct confrontation with viewers through representation, others literally make the medium perform. The latter reveal materials' plastic qualities by focusing on applying them according to carefully calculated criteria regarding texture, viscosity and flow. Although motifs seem to be lost within the accumulation of media, these works challenge abstractiuon through illustrating the properties of the materials - right where the lush, changeable colours, effects if transparency, baroque forms, sequins, wax, and glossy lacquer catch and delight the eye of the beholder.
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All of Leila Alaoui's works in this gallery from the series "No Pasara" [Entry Denied], 2008, are called Untitled. They are all ink-jet prints
They are exhibited here courtesy of:
Fondation Leila Alaoui, Marrakesh, Morocco
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, Beijing, China
Les Moulins, France; and Havana, Cuba
VOICE Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco
No Pasara
This exhibition is being presented to commemorate the death of the young French-Moroccan photographer and video artist from injuries suffered in an attack carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on January 15, 2016. Thirty people died in the attack, six of whom were aid workers from Quebec. She had gone there on a photographic assignment for Amnesty International to produce a reportage on women's rights.
The Appeal of Materials
Vehicles for both experimentation and representation, the works grouped here remind us that the history of art is closely linked to that of its materials. The enrichment and the greater diversity in respect to the choice of media seen since the avant-garde movements of the 1920s is also a feature of many contemporary artists' practices. While some of them set up possibilities for a direct confrontation with viewers through representation, others literally make the medium perform. The latter reveal materials' plastic qualities by focusing on applying them according to carefully calculated criteria regarding texture, viscosity and flow. Although motifs seem to be lost within the accumulation of media, these works challenge abstractiuon through illustrating the properties of the materials - right where the lush, changeable colours, effects if transparency, baroque forms, sequins, wax, and glossy lacquer catch and delight the eye of the beholder.
Click here for more information.
Click here for Leila Alaoui's official website.
All of Leila Alaoui's works in this gallery from the series "No Pasara" [Entry Denied], 2008, are called Untitled. They are all ink-jet prints
They are exhibited here courtesy of:
Fondation Leila Alaoui, Marrakesh, Morocco
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, Beijing, China
Les Moulins, France; and Havana, Cuba
VOICE Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco