Dates: 25 January to 1 September 2025
Space: Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
The exhibition After the end. Cartographies for Another Time., curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, seeks to challenge the Western vision rooted in a colonial system through new and ancestral, popular and modern narratives. Emphasising the importance of communities, the exhibition is organised around reflections that question diaspora and the limits of the intelligibility of modernity in order to imagine other worlds beyond the end of time, beyond our own time.
M'barek Bouhchichi's artistic approach focuses on analysing the mechanisms of discrimination against the black Amazigh of southern Morocco. His works offer a double personal reading, that of the artist, as well as that guided by thoughts open to sharing and interpretation. Through painting, drawing, installation and video, M'Barek Bouhchichi formulates modes of expression that move from the discourse of the individual towards broader social, political and historical systems. The common thread running through his work is an individual voice that allows us to rewrite ourselves. It is a thought in action that the artist signifies by going back and forth between the idea and the experience of the work.
Exhibited works:
•Reprendre les gestes interrompus, 2024, Three steel panels
•Ma grand-mère, 2024, Three painted wooden beams
•Je me suis approché de son oreille et j’ai murmuré des mots, Five solid copper sticks
©ADAGP, Paris 2024
©Image: Marc Domage
