In-situ version at La Plateforme, contemporary art laboratory, Dunkirk (solo exhibition).
In prevailing discourses on exile, one voice is missing, hidden beneath a flood of images: that of the exiles themselves.
Burning the abysses is an architecture designed for that this voice to take center stage, circulate, be considered and listened to with the attention it deserves..
Burning the abysses is a space composed of an in-situ installation, videos projected within the space, and five films without images. The project also includes mail art as well as performances by guest artists. Burning the Abyss was co-created with Daniel Dedou, Mohamed Abakar, Déo Namujimbo and Emad Ahmad.
Through this proposal made of darkness, openings, and liberated speech, (we are) forced to look to the other side of the mirror, compelled to observe our ability or inability to see the condition of these men and women.
(Fanny Lambert – Possible, contemporary art critique journal)
In-situ version at La Plateforme, contemporary art laboratory, Dunkirk (solo exhibition)
« At once drawn and dazzled by the projection of this sea, we wonder if we are not about to be pulled in. And the black room setup immerses us in this attentiveness to stories, to these lives and the conditions of confinement they encounter »
Fanny Lambert – Possible, revue critique d’art contemporain
Above, on the left: in-situ version at Fondazzjoni Kreattività, Malta (Malta, European Capital of Culture). In the center: in-situ version at Chateau Coquelle, Dunkirk. On the right: in-situ version at La Plateforme, contemporary art laboratory, Dunkirk (solo exhibition).
Mail art, with contributions from Omar Ibrahim (artist), Hannah Arendt (philosopher), Babi Badalov (artist), Mahmoud El Hajj (poet and journalist), Mohamed Nour Wana (artist), Moneim Rahama (author), Babak Inaloo (filmmaker), Yousif A. Haliem (author and poet), Omer Omran (philosopher), Mohamed Abakar (photographer).
Performance days and exhibitions by artists in exile, within the exhibition. Performed poetry by Mohamed Nour Wana, video screenings by Babak Inaloo and Moneim Rahama, exhibition of photographs and non-photographs by Mohamed Abakar, and drawings by Omar Ibrahim.
expositions
expositions
co-authors
Emmanuel Guillaud
with
Daniel Dedou
Mohamed Abakar
Déo Namujimbo
Emad Ahmad
Created with the complicity of
Christelle Mally
Albert Clermont
Tomonari Kawano
Anonyme
Baptiste Florin
Josette Vauché
Martine Devries
Claire Millot
Maël Galisson
Marie Le Ray
Elodie Valentin et l’association Fragile les Bulles
Marion Gronier
Alexandra Galitzine-Loumpet
co-authors
Emmanuel Guillaud
with
Daniel Dedou
Mohamed Abakar
Déo Namujimbo
Emad Ahmad
Created with the complicity of
Christelle Mally
Albert Clermont
Tomonari Kawano
Anonyme
Baptiste Florin
Josette Vauché
Martine Devries
Claire Millot
Maël Galisson
Marie Le Ray
Elodie Valentin et l’association Fragile les Bulles
Marion Gronier
Alexandra Galitzine-Loumpet
documents, talks
documents, talks