Palais de Tokyo
Dislocations
Exhibition from February 16 to June 30, 2024​
Palais de Tokyo
Curators: Marie-Laure Bernadac & Daria de Beauvais
« Dislocations » presents the works of Majd Abdel Hamid, Rada Akbar, Bissane Al Charif, Ali Arkady, Cathryn Boch, Tirdad Hashemi, Fati Khademi, Sara Kontar, Nge Lay, Randa Maddah, May Murad, Armineh Negahdari, Hadi Rahnaward, Maha Yammine, Misha Zavalniy.
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At a time when international geopolitical developments are a palimpsest of times and spaces in crisis, The “Dislocations” exhibition brings together fifteen artists from different generations and backgrounds (Afghanistan, France, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria and Ukraine) whose work is marked or informed by the experience of exile, of being torn between here and there, between past and present. Their practices draw on ancestral know-how and contemporary technologies, humble gestures and poor materials. The aim is to pay homage to the vital necessity and intensity of artistic creation through fragmented narratives that combine displacement, imprisonment and war with resilience and reparation.
Technique mixte sur papier, 28 x 38 cm, 2022-2023 Courtesy de l’artiste. Collection Claude et France Lemand (Paris). Crédit photo : Tamam Alomar
Cyanotype, dimensions variables, 2021-2022 Courtesy de l’artiste
Technique mixte sur papier, 28 x 38 cm, 2022-2023 Courtesy de l’artiste. Collection Claude et France Lemand (Paris). Crédit photo : Tamam Alomar
At a time when international geopolitical developments are an ever-changing palimpsest of times and spaces in crisis, artists can appear as lookouts, careful to the world’s upheavals and society’s major movements that are as many telluric waves. To be a lookout is to be a witness of one’s time, to deploy the power of one’s imagination by exploring the social and political realities of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
© Laura Jonneskindt
To coincide with the exhibition, we are publishing a book edited by Palais Books.
This publication is supported by La Petite Escalère.
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You can buy the book by sending us an e-mail to the following address:
portesouvertessurlart@gmail.com
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Price: 20€ (+5€ shipping fee)
This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Le Palais de Tokyo.
It is supported by Fairouz Chaarani and the Fondation Antoine de Galbert.
