mounir fatmi
THE OTHERS ARE THE OTHERS
Vidéo, 11 min 02
1999

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Who are other people? That seemingly simple question was inspired to the artist by the question the Algerian writer Mohammed Dib asked a few French philosophers, among which Jacques Derrida. For mounir fatmi, the idea is to take this classic philosophical question out of its intellectual context and confront it to the streets. So here it is, handed over to the people in the streets of Paris and Mantes la Jolie, a Parisian suburb. The answers are laconic, evasive, tender, conniving, sometimes philosophical. They are also everything and anything, apparently obvious and nevertheless ambivalent. From “there are no others” to “everyone is another”, what passers-by say reveals the delicate ambiguity of any definition, with the risk of permanently being ignorant of one’s fellow human being, whether it’s because we deny his difference or because we generously perceive him as similar, and underlines the difficulty of giving a precise mean- ing to what alterity really is.

À PROPOS DE L'ARTISTE

Born in 1970 in Tangiers, Morocco, mounir fatmi lives and works between Paris, Lille and Tangiers. 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 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 the conventions.

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Courtesy: the artist and Analix Forever, Geneva

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