'Unlock' is an introspective journey into the rugged world of Adel Abdessemed. Embedded in political themes, the work of the Franco-Algerian artist is a response to the situation of the contemporary world crossed by all kinds of convulsive movements. His Christs in barbed wire, his videos of animal massacres, his carcasses of folded planes and burnt cars, draw a vision of the world indexed on the horizon of sacrifice, disaster and contemporary trauma. Immigration, violence, misery conveyed by media images are captured and condensed in freeze frames, cropped, enlarged, transposed into sculpture-objects that enhance our experience of reality. The exhibition title 'Unlock' refers to the mystery which runs through the entire history of art, a story of codes that are constantly broken, encoded, disconnected and reinvented, as well as the condition of the world today, a digital age and era of data protection, in which our data and our lives continue to be encoded and hacked relentlessly.
Unlock
Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
23 March – 22 April 2019
Unlock
Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
23 March – 22 April 2019
'Unlock' is an introspective journey into the rugged world of Adel Abdessemed. Embedded in political themes, the work of the Franco-Algerian artist is a response to the situation of the contemporary world crossed by all kinds of convulsive movements. His Christs in barbed wire, his videos of animal massacres, his carcasses of folded planes and burnt cars, draw a vision of the world indexed on the horizon of sacrifice, disaster and contemporary trauma. Immigration, violence, misery conveyed by media images are captured and condensed in freeze frames, cropped, enlarged, transposed into sculpture-objects that enhance our experience of reality. The exhibition title 'Unlock' refers to the mystery which runs through the entire history of art, a story of codes that are constantly broken, encoded, disconnected and reinvented, as well as the condition of the world today, a digital age and era of data protection, in which our data and our lives continue to be encoded and hacked relentlessly.