SB13 in Sharjah
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.
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Neither the sky nor the earth, 2017
Site-specific installation, ink and felt pen on wall
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
Fusing various graphic techniques, Abdelkader Benchamma is perhaps best known for his large-scale installations that emerge from a practice grounded in the intimate and intricate exploration of drawing.
Benchamma’s SB13-commissioned installation continues in this vein, creating a new composition that covers all four walls and the ceiling of a room in Al Hamriyah Studios. Investigating the meaning of the archetypal image of the cave, Neither the sky nor the earth (2017) appears to consume the architecture of its own exhibition space. Benchamma’s work, conceived as both a mental and physical space, marks a threshold between the actual walls of the building and the representational space projected by the drawing. Moving between these two spatial dimensions, viewers find themselves disoriented, losing perspective within a composition in which materiality and temporality are continuously in flux.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
* 1975 Mazamet, France. Lives in Paris and Montpellier, France.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.