160 x 300 x 70 cm
Dave is part of Mohamed Bourouissa’s project Horse Day , which stemmed from a residency the artist conducted in Philadelphia in 2014. There, he discovered the activities of the Fletcher Street Riding Club, a historical stable and training program built by and aimed at young African Americans. Weaving together two predominant symbols of American lifestyle and culture—the cowboy and the car—Bourouissa collaborated with local riders and artists to organize a contest celebrating the best adorned horse, in the manner of car tuning competitions. The event led to the creation of a film, a series of drawings, and sculptures such as Dave , which are composed of the artist’s photographs of the Black riders silkscreened directly on the fragmented hood of a car. Mimicking the distorted representation of reality as experienced through a car window, the dented aspect of the car’s body is reminiscent of the manner images can be warped. The disjointed pieces of the car point out to holes in History, such as the omission of the existence and tradition of Black cowboys from the meta-narrative and founding myths of the American nation.
Mohamed Bourouissa became known in the 2000s with a series of photographs on young people in the suburbs of Paris. His work later evolved into video, sculpture, and installation, but remained focused on issues related to immigration and the social-economic processes that lead to integration or exclusion. He describes contemporary society implicitly, by outlining 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.
The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit...
While his works can function as abstract, they are very much rooted in physicality and the possibilities that are inherent in the materials themselves...
BF15 is a preparatory study for the collective’s intervention at the BF15 gallery in Mexico, near Monterrey...
The Best Cookbooks of 2023, According to NPR Staffers | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer Arts & Culture A Buffet of 2023 Cookbooks for the Food Lovers on Your List Beth Novey Dec 18 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Book covers of: ‘Asada,’ ‘The Cookie That Changed My Life,’ ‘Ed Mitchell's Barbeque,’ ‘The Global Pantry Cookbook,’ ‘Invitation to a Banquet,’ ‘The Secret of Cooking,’ ‘A Splash of Soy,’ ‘Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook,’ ‘Tenderheart,’ ‘The World Central Kitchen Cookbook.’ (NPR) There are a lot of cooks at NPR...
The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit...
After seeing Martha Camarillo’s photographs of horsemen in Strawberry Mansion -an impoverished Philadelphia neighbourhood- Mohamed Bourouissa travelled to see the urban stables run by African American men...
In his photographic series Périphérique (2005–2008), Mohamed Bourouissa used the composition of classical paintings to stage the portrait of friends and young people in the banlieue s (suburbs)...
Mohamed Bourouissa’s “ Shoplifters” Series was created in 2014-2015, in a neighborhood supermarket in Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn...
The series Clouds paintings by Benoît Maire features oil on canvas works in varying format, in which the artist depicts clouds, using a variety of tools, including a spray gun, paintbrush, or palette knife...
The piece consists of sculpture of 10 elements, among them: a globe, a picture of a gorilla, a chair, scrabble letters, 3 glasses of black ink, a book whose title is illuminated by the beam of a 8mm projector, a pair of boots, etc...
In Bodily Study of Unthinking Groups, Harrison combines two disparate materials into one stratified stack: automotive clay (used in detailing cars) forms the earthy base, while fragments of zebra skull become imbedded in this falsified soil...
This triptych is based on a Tesla whose interior the artist customized on the Tesla website...
American Express explores the meaning of play | Wallpaper The Miami installation debuting Play by American Express Platinum during Miami Art Week 2023 (Image credit: Courtesy American Express) By Tilly Macalister-Smith published 12 December 2023 In celebration of Design Miami and Art Basel Miami , American Express has commissioned four young artists and designers - Eny Lee Parker, Surin Kim, Serban Ionescu, and Kumkum Fernando - to reinterpret childhood toys into iconic limited edition collectibles...