At a time when international geopolitical developments are a palimpsest of times and spaces in crisis, the “Dislocations” exhibition brings together fifteen artists from different generations and backgrounds (Afghanistan, France, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria and Ukraine) whose work is marked or informed by the experience of exile, of being torn between here and there, between past and present.
Their practices draw on ancestral know-how and contemporary technologies, humble gestures and poor materials. The aim is to pay homage to the vital necessity and intensity of artistic creation through fragmented narratives that combine displacement, imprisonment and war with resilience and reparation.
Nge Lay, Beautifully Thorned Path, fabric canvas and mixed medium, 2023, 194 x 86 x 10 cm. View of the exhibition "Dislocations", Palais de Tokyo, 16.02-30.06.2024
View of the exhibition "Dislocations", Palais de Tokyo, 16.02-30.06.2024 From left to right: Misha Zavalniy, Maha Yammine, Sara Kontar, Fati Khademi
At a time when international geopolitical developments are an ever-changing palimpsest of times and spaces in crisis, artists can appear as lookouts, careful to the world’s upheavals and society’s major movements that are as many telluric waves. To be a lookout is to be a witness of one’s time, to deploy the power of one’s imagination by exploring the social and political realities of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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Exhibition assistants:
Natacha Marini, Alice Rochepeau
Photo credits:
Photos credits (except one image): Aurélien Mole
Other photo credit: Antoine Aphesbero
For more information:
https://palaisdetokyo.com/exposition/dislocations/ > this article
https://tram-idf.fr/dislocations-palais-de-tokyo/ > tram network from the Île-de-France Region
