mounir fatmi makes no concessions to convention, one statement being that he writes his name without capital letters. For the Biennale he has created a work comprising gutted VHS cassettes on a wall, with the noise of their revolving spindles blurred by a serpentine overlay of videotape reaching to the floor and even infiltrating the nearby photocopiers. To each side are video projections of Arabic calligraphy. mounir fatmi’s works involve a kind of superposition of different cultural worlds which never really come into contact. At the core of this work are the issues of the duplication and erosion of memory, and the uncertainties of cultural and intellectual transmission. The visitor is invited to use the photocopiers, but what do the machines actually record? A void image? The pointless trace of a sheet of paper? How is memory constructed in our time? How is history written? What exists beyond forgetting?
With the support of Ceprho Toshiba, Lyon / With the support of Lombard-Freid Projects, New York.
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