Lydia Ourahmane. 108 dies
Exhibition
until 01.04.2024
until 01.04.2024
Lydia Ourahmane: 108 Days
The Algerian artist Lydia Ourahmane gives a voice to 108 artists and collectives in the MACBA Tower as part of a major participatory and radical work in which everything is open-ended. Actions, talks, screenings and performances waiting to interact with the visitors.
The installations, videos, sculptures and sound works of Lydia Ourahmane address contemporary issues such as migration, colonialism and geopolitics. Inhabiting, gathering, sharing, being permeable…, these are all qualities that infuse the site-specific project 108 Days by Lydia Ourahmane (Saïda, Algeria, 1992) in the Museum tower. The title refers both to the days the exhibition is open to the public and to the number of participants who have been invited by the artist to engage with the space during this period.
108 Days carries an extended city context into the Museum by foregrounding individuals or collectives who form part of its social landscape. These guests have been specifically chosen by Ourahmane, who has lived in Barcelona since 2021. The space is not occupied by any finished artwork, or objects, but by what each participant deems urgent and incisive, with the aim of promoting critical dialogue and exchange with the space, the institutional framework and whoever enters and spends time in it. With this work, the artist presents a significant alteration to the way the Museum normally operates, firstly by leaving this gallery space empty, aside from those elements necessary for the performance of any foreseeable task, and secondly by interpreting the Museum’s commission to produce an artwork by inviting 108 participants. The trust between the artist, the institution, the guests and the audience is what lends significance to the work.
Ourahmane’s praxis poses the following questions: How can the institutional structures and parameters that define contemporary societies be defied? How can vigilance and the impositions of bureaucracy be overturned? How can artworks involve active and effective protests? Through these inquiries Ourahmane brings the personal into the political field and the domestic into the field of history.
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L’artista Lydia Ourahmane actualment viu i treballa entre Barcelona i Alger. Molts dels seus projectes tenen relació amb el seu entorn immediat i presenten objectes amb una forta càrrega social, política i experiencial. Està interessada en l’espiritualitat, la geopolítica contemporània, les migracions i les complexes històries del colonialisme. A través del vídeo, l’escultura, la instal·lació i el so, la seva obra s’expressa en un llenguatge molt singular, sovint amb formats grans o fins i tot monumentals, i està invariablement arrelada en històries i experiències personals, tant individuals com col·lectives. La seva és una praxi que es pregunta: com es poden desafiar les estructures i paràmetres institucionals que defineixen les societats contemporànies? Quina és la manera de desactivar els mecanismes de control estatal? Què cal fer perquè les obres d’art impliquin una protesta activa i efectiva? Ourahmane incorpora el que és personal a l’àmbit de la política i el que és domèstic a l’àmbit de la història.
Les seves exposicions individuals més recents inclouen: sync, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlín; Vendesi, Progetto, Lecce; Tassili, SculptureCenter, Nova York; Mercer Union, Toronto; rhizome, Alger; B7L9 Art Station, Tunis, i Louis Vuitton Foundation, París (2022-2023); Survival in the Afterlife, Portikus, Frankfurt, i De Appel, Amsterdam (2021-2022); Barzakh, Kunsthalle Basel, Triangle-Astérides, Marsella, i S.M.A.K., Gant (2021-2022); صرخة شمسية Solar Cry, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2020); i The you in us, Chisenhale Gallery, Londres (2018), entre d’altres. La seva obra ha format part de la 34 Biennal de São Paulo (2021), Manifesta 12, Palerm (2018), la Triennal del New Museum (2018) i la 15 Biennal d’Istanbul (2017).
També ha participat en les exposicions col·lectives: Home Sweet Home, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Risquons-Tout, WIELS, Brussel·les; i Laws of Confusion, Renaissance Society, Chicago (totes dues amb Alex Ayed); Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Algerian Contemporary Art, Le Magasin, Grenoble (2023).
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