70 x 100 cm
Nidhal Chamekh made the first drawings of the ongoing series Mémoire Promise in 2013. In the series, the artist persistently dissects, examines and describes his experiences and memories of his family and life in Tunis, Tunisia. As underlined by poet Arafat Sadallah, the artist draws eyes and gazes of unachieved portraits, hands and arms of a skeleton—figures disappear but they witness and testify. In writing on the work Sadallah writes: “Life is unachievable, infinite, torn. However at moments broken, ruptured. And through these ruptures and breaks give promise to a gift of sight and the possibility to witness, to be present in the world as a witness to … what exactly? What, who and where do we witness? Perhaps one can only witness the suspense of the question.” The Mémoire Promise series questions the role of the artist as witness.
Based between his native Tunis and Paris, Nidhal Chamekh’s work is an investigation into history as a point of access to our contemporary times. Drawing on both biography and politics, his work takes the form of drawing, installation, photography and videos. His drawings demonstrate a technique that is perpetually developed and challenged through his employment of a variety tools including pencil, brush, bread, charcoal and sponge. Despite the experimental application method, his execution is precise in its pursuit to replicate and observe reality. His line, essentially fragmented, draws on all eras and confuses spaces and cultures. We could consider his work as a sampler of the chaos of history developing cross-sections of this chaos and constituting a kind of social and cultural archaeology that renders the historical complexity of images perceptible.
Nos visages ( Our Faces ) continues Nidhal Chamekh’s research around visual souvenirs of figures of the past and the light they might shed on our contemporary era...
Léon Wuidar at White Cube Hong Kong – ARTOMITY 藝源 Léon Wuidar / Jan 17 – Mar 16, 2024 / White Cube Hong Kong / 50 Connaught Road, Central / Hong Kong / +852 2592 2000 / Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / whitecube.com Marking the artist’s inaugural show in Asia, White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Léon Wuidar (b...
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Nos visages ( Our Faces ) continues Nidhal Chamekh’s research around visual souvenirs of figures of the past and the light they might shed on our contemporary era...
Nidhal Chamekh made the first drawings of the ongoing series Mémoire Promise in 2013...
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