“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
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Guy Limone
25 SUR 1500 DES MIGRANTS DANS LE MONDE…
1500 painted plastic elements
2009
25 SUR 1500 DES MIGRANTS DANS LE MONDE SONT DES MAROCAINS. 1500 painted plastic elements (ech 1/87e) threaded on a fishing line, 480 cm high. Courtesy: The artist.
The “Threads” are like abacuses whose balls have been replaced by small sculptures representing characters. Here, 25 figurines painted with minute detail (The Moroccans) are lost among 1475 others, each one painted a bright color. I created this sculpture in Morocco, traditionally a country of emigration, but which is increasingly becoming a country of immigration. A multitude of colors that evoke a great variety of cultures of course, but also the traveling painters that color- ed Western art through their extensive voyages (Delacroix, Gauguin, Klee...). A statistic taken from the press is thus visualized, sculpted. The great length of the thread enables the vertigo that characterizes our world, constantly inventoried and yet elusive.
About the artist
Guy Limone Born in 1958 in Villefranche sur Sâone. He lives and works in Paris. From afar, Guy Limone’s paintings, sculptures, and installations read as minimalist and monochromatic; up close, they reveal an artistic practice centered on obsessions—with demographics and statistics, color and categorization, and miniatures. Taking as his launch point such arbitrary statistics as “160 out of 1000 Americans own a pass- port,” or “18.8% of Greeks are obese,” Limone crafts 3D infographics that visualize this data, usually through the use of tiny, handpainted plastic figurines, strung together or arranged in intricate tabletop tableaux; in his 1996 installation 67,857 inhabitants per sq. mile, he visualized the average share of Manhattan’s land for each of its in- habitants. Working as a taxonomist as much as an artist, Limone also crafts monochromatic collages that mix images of famous artworks with fragments from mass media—asserting an aesthetic order on a world that is inundated with information and imagery.
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25 SUR 1500 DES MIGRANTS DANS LE MONDE SONT DES MAROCAINS. 1500 painted plastic elements (ech 1/87e) threaded on a fishing line, 480 cm high. Courtesy: The artist.