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Périphérique
978-1912719297
New
Presentation by Loose Joints:
" The first full presentation of Bourouissa's important series revisits and contextualises the artist's theatrical images of marginalised lives in Paris' outskirts.
In this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in the Paris banlieues where they used to hang out. Confrontations, gatherings, incidents, looks, and frozen gestures all suggest a palpable tension. Invoking Delacroix as much as Jeff Wall, Bourouissa's high drama in the outskirts of Paris attempts to give a place in French history to individuals usually neglected and overlooked in contemporary society. In Périphérique, Bourouissa uses staging to critique stereotypical representations of these individuals, engaging with and parodying media representations of the banlieues and their inhabitants.
Périphérique was completed from 2005-2008, in the context of unprecedented riots and violence in the French banlieues against social inequality. This landmark publication of the Périphérique series in 2021 will look back on the work's original context in light of still-prescient social, economic and political issues, through the eyes of two newly-commissioned texts by Taous R. Dahmani and Clément Chéroux. This first publication of the series in full mines Bourouissa's archives, with more than sixty pages of unseen preparatory photographs that reveal how the artist's meticulous process of observation, preparation and collaboration with his subjects shaped this unique and bold body of work. "
This photobook received the « Photobook of the Year » Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Award in 2022.
Many gatefolds. Texts in French and English.
172 pages - Softcover
Loose Joints, 2021
Format : 23 x 34 cm
New - Mint condition
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Bourouissa, Mohamed
Mohamed Bourouissa is an Algerian artist and photographer based in Paris, France. Artist statement on his website: « Mohamed Bourouissa describes contemporary society implicitly, by its contours. With a critical take on the mass media image, the subjects of his photographs and videos are people left behind at the crossroads of integration and exclusion. Preceded by a long immersion phase, each of Mohamed Bourouissa's projects builds a new enunciation situation. » © Portrait taken from an article (in French) on Technikart (uncredited)
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