Mounir Fatmi (1970) is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in Paris. His multimedia practice encompasses video, installation, drawing, painting and sculpture.
Mounir Fatmi is largely influenced by September 11 attacks. He produced a series of installations named Save Manhattan. These artworks show the Manhattan skyline including the destroyed World Trade Center towers. Save Manhattan 1 is made with books, Save Manhattan with videotapes and Save Manhattan 3 is a sound installation with speakers. The ultimate contribution to this project is a video where the skyline progressively dissolves itself in distorted liquefied reflection.
Many of Mounir Fatmi’s works are seen as subversive, such as his Brainteaser for moderate Muslim, a series of rubix cubes painted in black with white stripes to imitate the Kaaba in Mecca. As a reaction to the Arab Spring, he exhibited The Lost Spring, an installation composed of 2 brooms of 3 meters and the 22 flags of the Arab league.
Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with elaborately drawn Islamic poems relaying a peaceful message. Using current events as content for projects, Fatmi investigates the origins of contemporary issues and crises.
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious objects, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He questions the world and plays with its codes and precepts under the prism of architecture, language and the machine.He is particularly interested in the idea of the role of the artist in a society in crisis. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events and reveals its structure. Mounir Fatmi's work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by convention.
Crédits photos : copyright ADAGP pour Mounir Fatmi,
Philippe Migeat pour le Centre Pompidou, Espacio C, Pedro Deniz, Alain Alquier pour le Parvis, Migros Museum, Nacho Gonzales, Souad Guennoun, Jean-Christophe Lett, Julien Carot, Blaise Adilon pour la Xe Biennale de Lyon, Rebecca Fanuele pour Yvon Lambert, Dominique Libert pour Keitelman Gallery,
Mounir Fatmi is largely influenced by September 11 attacks. He produced a series of installations named Save Manhattan. These artworks show the Manhattan skyline including the destroyed World Trade Center towers. Save Manhattan 1 is made with books, Save Manhattan with videotapes and Save Manhattan 3 is a sound installation with speakers. The ultimate contribution to this project is a video where the skyline progressively dissolves itself in distorted liquefied reflection.
Many of Mounir Fatmi’s works are seen as subversive, such as his Brainteaser for moderate Muslim, a series of rubix cubes painted in black with white stripes to imitate the Kaaba in Mecca. As a reaction to the Arab Spring, he exhibited The Lost Spring, an installation composed of 2 brooms of 3 meters and the 22 flags of the Arab league.
Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with elaborately drawn Islamic poems relaying a peaceful message. Using current events as content for projects, Fatmi investigates the origins of contemporary issues and crises.
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious objects, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He questions the world and plays with its codes and precepts under the prism of architecture, language and the machine.He is particularly interested in the idea of the role of the artist in a society in crisis. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events and reveals its structure. Mounir Fatmi's work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by convention.
Crédits photos : copyright ADAGP pour Mounir Fatmi,
Philippe Migeat pour le Centre Pompidou, Espacio C, Pedro Deniz, Alain Alquier pour le Parvis, Migros Museum, Nacho Gonzales, Souad Guennoun, Jean-Christophe Lett, Julien Carot, Blaise Adilon pour la Xe Biennale de Lyon, Rebecca Fanuele pour Yvon Lambert, Dominique Libert pour Keitelman Gallery,
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| 2004, Save Manhattan, 80 books on plint, light, lamp, drop shadow © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2004-07, Connexion (Noveau Testament) © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2005, Keeping faith © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2005-08, Hard Head © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, Après la chute (After the fall) © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, Double Strategy, 35 wooden crutches © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, I Like America (Tribute to Jacques Derrida) © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, Save Manhattan © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, Skyline © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2007, Without History © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2008, 500 meters of silence © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2008, The Brooms (Contamination) © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2008, The Monuments © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2009 Ghosting © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2009-10, Modern Times, A History of the Machine © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2009-11, MehrLicht, 5 copymachines, neon lights © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2010, Assassins © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2010, Assassins © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2010, Maximum Sensation. © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2010, Maximum Sensation. © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved.. |
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| 2010, Mixology © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, Kissing Circles © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, Les Printemps Perdus © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, Oil, Oil, Oil, Oil © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, The Angel´s Black Leg © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, The Impossible Union © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2011, The Machinery © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, Calligraphy of Fire © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, Calligraphy of Fire, tribute to Brion Gysin © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, Casablanca Circles © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, In the absence of evidence to the contrary © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, In the absence of evidence to the contrary © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, In the absence of evidence to the contrary © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, Labyrinth 4 © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, Oriental Accident © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2012, The Year Zero © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2013, Coupe © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2013-14, Deconstruction Structure © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2013-14, The Paradox © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2013-16, The Blinding Light © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2014, History is not mine © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2014, The Paradox © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2015, Calligraphy of Fire © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2015, Constructing Illusion © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| 2016, Calligraphy of Fire © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| Defense © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| Evolution or death © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| Fuck the architects Chapter II © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| skateboards with prayer rugs at miami, UNTITLED © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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| The Death Of The Straight Line © Mounir Fatmi. All rights reserved. |
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