Mounir Fatmi

Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious object, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He is particularly interested in the idea of death of the subject of consumption. This can be applied to antenna cables, copier machines, VHS tapes, and a dead language or a political movement. 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 the conventions.

Mounir Fatmi (b. 1970, Morocco) lives and works in Paris, France. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, Morocco, the School of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fatmi has participated in the 52nd, 54th, and 57th Venice Bienniale, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennial, the 2nd Seville Biennial, the 5th Gwangju Biennial, the 10th Lyon Biennial, and the 5th Auckland Triennial, among many others. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Es Baluard Museum, Palma, Spain; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; museum in progress, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; Centre d’Art Contemporain de Vienne, Vienna, Austria; AKBank Sanat, Istabul; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; CCC, Tours, FR; French Institute of Meknés, Prison Qara, Morocco; Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE; Labanque, Bethune, FR; MAMCO, Geneva, CH; The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, Marrakech, MR; Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery, Miami Beach, FL; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Officine dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Christie’s London, UK; Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia; and more. Fatmi has been awarded the Silver Plane Prize, Altai Biennale, Moscow, Russia; Prix de la Biennale du Caire, Cairo, Egypt; Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor, 7éme Bienniale de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, to name a few. In 2014 he was shortlisted for the Jameel Prize 3 by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.