$28,000

Artwork Description

| About the work Contemporary art, deeply marked by the exploration of exteriority, offers the artist a panoply of possibilities, so that he can reinvent the world and its spaces, according to the research and instantaneous variations that run through his boiling imagination. However, there are few artists who tend more towards a fertile interiority, marked by snatches of memory, fragments of stories and primordial emotions. Without being totally introspective, such a vision deconstructs ruptures, reinstates the bridges between body and memory, sense and senses, and establishes itself as a fragmentary vision whose openings, discoveries and compositions sometimes engender a reinvention of the self... You have to plunge into the nakedness of memory to find there the volatile and immeasurable traces of a life propelled into the future... The creative act constantly articulates this individual history and personal memory with the common History and collective Memory. The individual is not cut off from the collective, and the collective from the individual. This weaving constantly structures the entire work of Mohamed Arejdal, who never ceases to draw on various threads of his own experience, interweaving them with those he draws from the experiences of others. Ultimately, his entire creative enterprise, made up of a tangle of linear networks, is founded, literally and symbolically, on this modus operandi, which consists of tracing trajectories and establishing links by stringing pearls of spatiotemporal density. | About the artist Born in 1984 in Guelmim in southern Morocco, Mohamed Arejdal developed a passion for drawing and sculpture from an early age, exhibiting his work as an amateur from the age of 17. After dropping out of school, he attempted a clandestine crossing to the Canary Islands, but failed. In 2009, he graduated from the Institut National des Beaux-arts in Tétouan. In 2012, he declared his artistic birth during a mesmerising performance in Jamaa El Fna square in Marrakech. He then laid the foundations for a multidisciplinary practice in which he explored the links between social groups that he questioned during his encounters and travels. His performances occupy a very important place in his work, in which he challenges the public about his condition as an artist and the meaning of powerful symbols. Since 2008, Mohamed Arejdal has taken part in a number of major projects, including BIENALSUR 2019 in Argentina, ‘Poésies Africaines’ and ‘Traversées’ at the Comptoir des Mines Galerie alongside the 1-54 Marrakech fair, ‘En quête d'archive’ at ‘Silent Green’ in Berlin, ‘Le Maroc contemporain’ at the IMA - Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, ‘Cette fois, le sujet est personnel’ at Makan in Jordan and the Jerusalem Biennial. Collections | Élisabeth Bauchet-Bouhlal · Dalloul Art Foundation · Alliances Foundation · Maliha Tabari