“I am like one who wore his brick to show the world how was his home.” Bertolt Brecht
Often I was asked this question: how do I see myself as an artist? My answer has always been the same: I consider myself an immigrant worker. My job is to consider what it is to be an artist, when he feels different from in his own cultural context, even in his own role.With this necessity, this permanent need to think of exile, the project of the Exile Pavilion was born, as a traveling project, offering a parallel cartography, a free geography of temporary exhibitions, with stops in different countries. The project raises the question of the exile as a new space to be reinvented, to be rethought and finally to be invested. He wants to question both the global and specific links between various forms of displacement, whether the migrant worker’s situation, the expatriate, the refugee or the exile of war, natural disasters, economical problems, and political or racial persecutions.The Exile Pavilion wants to invest and cross all boundaries, revisiting the experiences of the exile and reactivate the traces in history. Where does the exile begin and where does it end? Are we all equal against the displacement and exile? And from who are we exiles?The Exile Pavilion does not exist as an architectural building even if the proposal is made for architects to imagine. But it is the works of artists, visual artists, musicians, poets, writers, performers they are exiles or their work deals with the displacement, which build together this protean and nomadic pavilion. Its journey will make layovers at artistic structures, institutions, ephemeral places, in the form of exhibitions, publications and meetings. At each stop, the works and archival materials are redesigned according to the place and its history.
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Ethel Waters
Press
Another 7 days to discover Mounir Fatmi's Pavilion of Exile in Tangier, Tanger Experience, August 8th, 2017.
Stella, Berger, From exile I made glasses to see, Dyptik, n°35, Oct-Nov 2016, pp. 36-38.
Contact
Studio Fatmi Paris Phone and Fax: +33 (0)9 52 78 14 92
mounir fatmi fatmi.mounir@studiofatmi.com
Project Assistant Laura Pandolfo laura@studiofatmi.com
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Carlos Aires
SWEET DREAMS
Single Channel Video
2015
Courtesy: The artist
Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas,
Everybody’s looking for something.
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.
Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for some- thing.
Hold your head up Keep your head up,
movin’ on Hold your head up,
movin’ on Keep your head up,
movin’ on
Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for something.
About the artist
Born in 1974 in Spain. He lives and works in Madrid. His work incorporates photography, sculpture and installation with a fun and festive aesthetic behind which lies a content of social and political critique. He uses icons from the Spanish tradition, such as bullfighters and dwarfs, as well as images of historical and contemporary characters, together with other anonymous figures taken from the media, and incorporates written messages and musical references to popular culture that suggest poetry, beauty and denunciation.