Algerian Artists Write the Video Body
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.
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Mustapha Sedjal’s filmed action implies this performative model. It was at the Karima Celestin Gallery in Marseille where he wrote on the wall, Un seul héros le peuple [The people, a single hero] (2012, 5 min), and where he crossed out the word "people" to write instead "my father." Sedjal refers to filiation, to the transmission of the memory of the Algerian Liberation War from father to son and thus from mother to daughter. History is written by individuals who form an entity, a nation. Here, it is a question of the corporeal action through which Sedjal enters into a relationship with his own memory and with the personal history of his father. A way of inscribing and affirming his individuality when digesting colonial history.
© Still: Mustapha Sedjal
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.