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Despite their formal differences, the three series of works that make up ‘Suite et fin’, Fayçal Baghriche’s solo show at Le SHED, initiated by French national arts centre CNAP, share a surprising reliance upon the traditional artistic techniques of painting and drawing.
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"It is what it is. Or is it?" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is CAMH curator Dean Daderko's first show. It has Marcel Duchamp as its standard
Read More"It is what it is. Or is it?" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is CAMH curator Dean Daderko's first show. It has Marcel Duchamp as its standard
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Art Dubai, in partnership with the Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and Tashkeel, has launched Artists-in-Residence
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The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States in collaboration with the Institut Francais, with the support of the Alliance Française of Los Angeles and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, are pleased to announce Ceci n’est pas…Art Between France and Los Angeles.
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Art Dubai Projects is a programme of new works and performances that explores the fabric and economy of an art fair, embracing the theatrical nature of such an event.
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It’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters
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Giving priority to forms of performance, photography and video, Fayçal Baghriche’s (b. 1972; Skikda, Algeria) work brings out the stereotypes that sustain and codify exchanges between individuals. Reproducing scenes from daily life, the artist introduces slight discrepancies to reveal the automatic reflexes of language and behaviour that define the affiliation of these scenes with a meaningful structure. If all language reflects what we are (Roland Barthes), Fayçal Baghriche, in revealing the normative aspects of our common language, puts the functioning of our society at a critical distance.
Fayçal Baghriche's performances, videos and installations are stamped with a distinctive approach to everyday existence and the forms of behaviour it induces. Using semantic discrepancies and mises en scène to create breaches in the way reality functions, the artist transforms the public arena into a venue for startling transgressions, Ubuesque scenarios and minimalist actions tinged with humour. Confronting a world of speed and chaos, Baghriche achieves a detachment rooted in an analysis and decoding of historical commonplaces (notably in respect of art) and of hidden political and economic agendas. Through recourse to the poetic he has shaped an artistic practice which embodies a certain state of mind and triggers thoughtfully critical reactions.
Baghriche lives and works in Paris.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
