OFFICINE DELL’IMMAGINE
HALIDA BOUGHRIET   « Out of Place »
May 16 – July 13, 2019

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From 16th May to 13th July 2019, Officine dell’Immagine in Milan is pleased to present the second solo exhibition dedicated to Halida Boughriet, one of the most interesting artists of the emerging contemporary scene.

Curated by Silvia Cirelli, the exhibition Out of Place will present recent work by this talented artist in an Italian exclusive. Already recognised internationally for exhibitions at Centre Pompidou and Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Rabat Biennale, the Los Angeles Depart Foundation, Documenta 14 and the 11th Dak’Art Biennial, Boughriet is surprising for her rare expressive eclecticism, ranging from photography to video and performance, in which she herself becomes the spokesperson for the artistic message.

Always attentive to the exploration of socio-cultural, behavioural and geopolitical themes concerning current cultural situation, Boughriet translates the precariousness of a historical moment marked by a sense of uprooting, an absence of communication between people and by the need for belonging.
Coming to authentic emotional essentiality and completely laying bare human vulnerabilities, this young artist’s narrative sees the body as the focal point of the entire creative journey. With the spasmodic urgency of filling the void created by a painful nomadic dynamism, the body’s symbolism is what drives the search and becomes, above all, an allegory of the return of identity.

The core of the exhibition is Boughriet’s Border series (2017) and Exile de Anges (2019), where the balance between light and shadow, clearly inspired by Caravaggio, synthesises an emotional landscape constructed upon the authenticity of people. The protagonists are in fact witnesses of wars, violence and abuse, to whom the artist returns their voices. Human fragility is also the subject of her photographic project Les absents du décor (2018), though this time emphasised by the reconstruction of fake man-sized universes created by the artist. Like true Western-style mise en scènes, these unlikely settings reveal the artist’s meticulous attention to detail in each individual project, choosing an aesthetic vocabulary that understands the importance of the archive and of re-appropriating cultural memory.
Her reinterpretation of sensitive themes, such as violence in the broadest sense – from individual to social or political – is condensed in Bullet AK-47 (2018) and in the video Lamma bada, for what appeared to be (2019). In the latter, the ferocity of a military item – the smoke bomb held by the artist – is distorted and « twisted » by the evocative, poetic dance that accompanies the romantic poetry famously sung by Fairouz in 1960.
The exhibition closes with the recent Ce qui Brûle series (2019), laser engravings on wood depicting scenes of war, rebellion or destruction taken from the internet or newspapers. The laser scores the wood in an indelible, permanent way, as if to resolutely and decisively shout out about the urgency the humanitarian crisis that we have watched unfold for far too long.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Halida Boughriet is a Franco-Algerian artist, born in Lens (France) in 1980. She currently lives and works in Choisy le Roi, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and in 2005 she participated in an exchange programme with the New York SVA, in the Cinema section. She has numerous exhibitions in major international museums to her credit. This includes Centre Pompidou, the MAC/VAL Museum (Musée d’Art contemporain du Val de Marne) and the Institut du Monde Arabe in France; the Museum of Modern Art in Algiers; the Hood Museum in the USA and the Düsseldorf Kunst Museum and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Germany. She also participated in the recent Rabat Biennial, Documenta 14 and the 11th Dak’Art Biennial. In 2014, she was also included in Rencontres Internationales of Paris, Berlin and Madrid.

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Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Monday and holidays by appointment.

4ème édition des Rencontres Photographiques de Rabat 2019. Vernissage le 3 Mai 2019, galerie Bab Rouah de Rabat.

Border#, 2017 & Transit, 2011 ©halidaboughriet

Curated by Jaafar Akil.

La 4ème édition des Rencontres Photographiques de Rabat

https://www.artdependence.com/articles/the-aestheticized-interview-with-halida-boughriet-algeriafrance/

OPENING October 12, 4-8 pm

Azad Art Gallery, Tehran / Iran

http://azadart.gallery/En/upcoming.aspx

Artists: Halida Boughriet, Sharzad Changvalaee,  Fatoş Irwen, Simin Keramati, Tahmineh Monzavi, Balqis al´Rashid, Dilan Cudi Saruhan, Nil Yalter, Arzu Yayıntaş

Every person should have the exclusive right to dispose of their body as they wish. The body should be an untouchable personal zone. But power structures of a governmental or religious nature as well as certain social notions do restrict this right. In particular, women of the so called Near and Middle East are struggling for this right. However the undifferentiated, fragmentary idea of the subordinated, voiceless woman in the hijab, who has to be freed by external forces – an idea very prominent in the West – represents a false role as well. Per se it denies the individual self-determination of the many different women in the aforementioned region – just like some of the governmental or religious institutions in charge. Art is a field where – more or less safely – anyone can exercise this right on the own body. In Vienna the use of the body as artistic medium is prominent due to the Viennese Actionism, the works of Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT and the feminist avantgarde of the 70s, most of whom explored the medium of video. The central starting point of the exhibition at hinterland is on the one hand the awareness that a lot of female artists from Near and Middle Eastern countries use their bodies as their artistic tool as well as video as their medium, on the other hand the need for representations of the self instead of the other in order to replace generalisations. By showing different self-representations of artists who claim their right over their body the exhibition intends to draw the attention of the general public to those women who refuse both previously mentioned forms of heteronomy. The ways in which they put their protest into practice vary from intentionally breaking taboos, counteracting stereotypes, making mental pain visible on their body, to the corporeal claim of the public space

Curated by hinterland

Not what you think!

Décoloniser les corps, Biennale Art Nomad ///////

Artistes : 
Giulia Andreani,Raphael Barontini, Laura Bottereau, Marine Fique,  Halida Boughriet,  Edi Dubien,  Claude Cattelain, Esther Ferrer, KAy Garnellen Pélagie Gbaguidi, Hot bodies Choir, Katia Kameli, Kubra Kadhemi, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Roberta Marrero,  Myriam Mechita, Myriam Mihindou, Pauline N’Gouala, Françoise Pétrovitch, Abel Techer, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Floryan Varennes, Etaïnn Zwer, Claire Finch.

 Ecole des beaux arts de Limoges
 Transpalette, Bourges
 The window, Paris
 Calais avec l’auberge des migrants, Bruxelles et Berlin

Vidéo – Pandore, 2014  ©halidaboughriet

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