Dave
2018 - Installation (Installation)
160 x 300 x 70 cm
Mohamed Bourouissa
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.
Colors:
Related works sharing similar palette
© » KADIST
Phillip Maisel
2015While his works can function as abstract, they are very much rooted in physicality and the possibilities that are inherent in the materials themselves...
© » KADIST
Victor & Sergiy Kochetov
1982According to Viktor Kochetov, Meeting with the awaited guest / Yellow Bows is the first hand-colored print he ever made...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
"Dionysus": Suzuki Tadashi Brings Vengeance to SIFA 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Dian P Susilaradeya January 14, 2019 By Kathy Rowland (642 words, three-minute read) Suzuki Tadashi is one of the brand names in the international tour circuit, whose productions have earned critical praise and inspired several generations of audiences...
© » LARRY'S LIST
Cheng Xindong's contemporary art collection on display in Beijing - CGTN ABOUT US Home China World World Asia-Pacific Americas Europe Middle-East and Africa Politics Business Opinions Tech & Sci Culture Sports Travel Nature Picture Video Live TV Specials Home China World World Asia-Pacific Americas Middle-East and Africa Europe Politics Business Opinions Tech & Sci Culture Sports Travel Nature Picture Video Live TV Specials Home China World Asia-Pacific Americas Europe Middle-East and Africa Politics Business Opinions Tech & Sci Culture Sports Travel Nature Picture Video Live TV Specials Home China World Asia-Pacific Americas Middle-East and Africa Europe Politics Business Opinions Tech & Sci Culture Sports Travel Nature Picture Video Live TV Specials Download Art 19:59, 21-Dec-2020 A snapshot of globalization: Cheng Xindong's contemporary art collection on display in Beijing By Ding Siyue Share Copied 02:32 Tsinghua University Art Museum is hosting an exhibition for the renowned Chinese art collector Cheng Xindong...
© » KADIST
Jay Chung and Takeki Maeda
2009Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda remake a clip from the 1970s they found on the internet, and without really changing this archive material, displace it by imitating the staging and the acting with scrupulous precision...
© » KADIST
Raymond Pettibon
2007The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon...
© » KADIST
Risham Syed
2022Risham Syed discovered a box of woven Chinese silk panels that was her mother’s most prized possession...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
Kartika Affandi: 9 Ways of Seeing | Interview with videomaker Christopher Basile (via Culture 360) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 17, 2018 A new documentary film tells the story of visionary artist Kartika Affandi, daughter of Indonesia ‘s most celebrated painter, and a groundbreaking personality in her own right...
© » KADIST
El Hadji Sy
1981El Hadji Sy is an important figure in the critical movement that followed Lépold Sedar Senghor´s Négritude ideology...
© » STEVE LAMBERT
The Powers of Art - Steve Lambert The Powers of Art - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert wrote a book!!! Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA December 2023 Work Center for Artistic Activism , Prints , risograph For the last several years I have made end of year Thank You prints for donors to the Center for Artistic Activism ...