![]() Gradually, conceptual yet personal objects came to the fore. Best known for his photography, Batniji is a protean artist who works on a humble, human scale.įrom his early pictorial approach, he moved quickly towards more conceptual objects, using photography and video. Covering nearly twenty-five years of work, this exhibition brings together some elements from his prolific output and sets about exploring its multiple aspects. MAC VAL is organising the first monographic museum exhibition by Taysir Batniji. Georges Perec, Espèces d’espaces, Paris, Galilée, 1974 ‘To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.’ While his work often reveals a poetic perception of reality, he has never stopped subtly and humorously pointing up the difficulty of constructing one’s identity around a crack, a wound that is as personal as it is shared. No medium dominates in this art which weaves links between private and public space and explores questions of identity, displacement, memory, attachment, disappearance, absence, frontiers, exile and traces.īy bringing his personal experience to bear on current events, Batniji sheds light on situations that are culturally and geographically in-between. From his early pictorial approach, he moved quickly towards more conceptual objects, and gradually began using photography and video. Taysir Batniji studied at An-Najah National University in Nablus and followed up his diploma there with a period at the Beaux-Arts school in Bourges (1995-1997). This retrospective highlights the resonances between the different pieces, which are conceived in a permanent dialogue with the history of art, and historical, geographical and political reality, from the artist’s singular and personal viewpoint. ![]() MAC VAL is presenting the first monographic museum by Taysir Batniji, bringing together a selection of over fifty works produced over the last twenty-five years. (A few snatches torn from the deepening emptiness) ‘Quelques bribes arrachées au vide qui se creuse’
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