Bouchra Khalili
Since the mid-2000's, Bouchra Khalili has been producing astute, demanding work in the form of visual and discursive hypotheses which take into account what is at stake, in contemporary terms, in art and the world at large. She uses film and video installation as her chosen media in order to communicate the spoken words of the unheard and breathe new life into long-forgotten stories. Her practice is taken up with undermining official geographies, narrations and official versions of history in order to restore to our approach to the real and its protagonists a sense of depth of what is just. In her first large-scale project in Paris since her exhibition Blackboard at Jeu de Paume in 2018, three theatres will be hosting the work of Bouchra Khalili, in the form of video installations, 16mm films and textile-based pieces. Central to them are questions of representation, the public sphere and the words used there, montage and the collective.
Born in 1975 in Casablanca, Bouchra Khalili lives in Vienna (Austria) and works in an itinerant manner. Since the mid-2000s, she has been acutely and rigorously proposing works conceived as visual and discursive hypotheses that reflect contemporary issues in art and the world. With film and video installation as privileged media to convey the words of those who are not heard and forgotten stories that it brings to light, his practice strives to thwart geographies, the official narratives and stories in order to restore thickness and accuracy to reality and its protagonists. His research explores in particular the imperial and colonial continuities, embodied by contemporary forms of illegal migration and the memory of anti-colonial struggles. Influenced by the heritage of post-Independance avant-gardes and the vernacular traditions of Morocco, she develops storytelling strategies at the intersection of history and occult memories, questioning questions ofself-representation, of the autonomy of individuals and the forms of resistance of communities made invisible by the model of the nation-state. Graduated in film and media studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle and in visual arts from the Ecole Nationale des Arts de Paris-Cergy, Bouchra Khalili has notably exhibited at the Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, at the EMST Museum in Athens and at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2024; to the Luma Foundation of Arles and to the MACBA in Barcelona in 2023; to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2019; to the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2018; to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2016; to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2015. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2024 and in documenta 14, Athens/Kassel, in 2017. She received the Sharjah Biennial Award in 2023 and the Ibsen Prize in 2017. She is a professor and head of the department of artistic strategies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is also a founding member of The Cinémathèque de Tanger.
"How can we follow in the remains of what has been wiped out?"
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