Breath of Freedom
Critical art from Tunisia, created before and after the revolution. Virtual group exhibition.
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Angle Mort. 2010
(The Dead Angle)
Photographs on Plexiglas panels
Aïcha Filali is one of the rare Tunisian artists who has never stopped reinventing herself. What characterizes her artistic work the most is her critical and non-reverential critique regarding the art world, whether Tunisian or international.
The question of elitism, of distinction according to Bourdieu’s formulation, constitutes a reoccurring problematic in her artistic proposals. In the work presented here, taken from her installation, L’angle Mort (The Dead Angle) at Galerie Ammam Farhat, March 2010, we see photographs of "simple people," affixed onto Plexiglas panels, which the artist "installs" in the gallery space. These people, who are not usually part of the "very select" public of art galleries, appropriate a space from which they are socially excluded. A few months later, in January 2011 and this time in reality, they would appropriate the political space at the front lines of those who chased the deposed president from the country.
© Photo: Aïcha Filali
Critical art from Tunisia, created before and after the revolution. Virtual group exhibition.