Text by larys frogier (1 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 24 x 29 cm, 160 pages, 165 color & 37 b/w illustrations - Organized around an extensive essay by Larys Frogier, this reference monograph offers an overview of Abdessemed's work. Adel Abdessemed (born 1971 in Constantine, Algeria, lives and works in Paris and Berlin) deconstructs identity codes, tackling head-on the tensions that permeate our society. His works, with their typical simplicitysculptural installations, drawings, photographs, videos and performancesecho precise facts and familiar situations, but go beyond narrative commentary and militant criticism. Adel Abdessemed questions, among other things, the social and economic status of the artist in a system where his foothold is slight, by shrewdly keeping a distance in a gesture of subversive and committed resignation.…