Something is possible, SF Publishing, 2021
Placed beside each other, the apparently inoffensive ordinary objects also show a strange lattice collection, a wall of yesterday's technology that is obsolete today.
Marie Deparis, 2007
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Rosary White aerial cable, a technical material reappropriated as a formal medium, is a regular visual element in mounir fatmi's work. Here, sheaves of white cables are arranged on the ground, bound in short tubes then released into large flowing movements, somewhere between arabesques and rangolis. This “rosary” of unusual dimensions, which the visitor can enter and move around in, firstly suggests a sort of informal fluidity. |
Rosary
This sculptural proposition can also be understood as a sort of materialisation of a sufi ritual in which reciting leads to “loosing oneself” in God. Thus it is about entering into an open meditative space – an interlude, a space to breath.
Rosary
At the same time however, the visitor who enters into the work finds himself spatially and symbolically trapped in what he may perceive as a system of connections – the etymological route of religion. How do you get out without damaging these connections? How can you free yourself?
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Rosary The rosary, a ritual instrument of prayer that was originally a “way of remembering God” by invoking the repetition of his name, is made of links from which, it turns out, it is difficult to extricate oneself. Each knot – corresponding to one of God's names – becomes an obstacle to overcome. |
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