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 Biennale, 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 presented in numerous personal exhibitions, at the Migros Museum, Zurich; MAMCO, Geneva; Picasso Museum La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris; AK Bank Foundation, Istanbul; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf and at the Gothenburg Konsthall. He also participated in several collective exhibits at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MAXXI, Rome; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MMOMA, Moscow; Mathaf, Doha; Hayward Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; and Louvre Abu Dhabi. 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 Biennale 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.