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Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa
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Périphérique, Mohamed Bourouissa

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The first full presentation of Bourouissa’s important series revisits and contextualises the artist’s theatrical images of marginalised lives in Paris’ outskirts.

In this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in the Paris banlieues where they used to hang out. Confrontations, gatherings, incidents, looks, and frozen gestures all suggest a palpable tension. Invoking Delacroix as much as Jeff Wall, Bourouissa’s high drama in the outskirts of Paris attempts to give a place in French history to individuals usually neglected and overlooked in contemporary society. In Périphérique, Bourouissa uses staging to critique stereotypical representations of these individuals, engaging with and parodying media representations of the banlieues and their inhabitants.

Périphérique was completed from 2005-2008, in the context of unprecedented riots and violence in the French banlieues against social inequality. This landmark publication of the Périphérique series in 2021 will look back on the work's original context in light of still-prescient social, economic and political issues, through the eyes of two newly-commissioned texts by Taous R. Dahmani and Clément Chéroux. This first publication of the series in full mines Bourouissa’s archives, with more than sixty pages of unseen preparatory photographs that reveal how the artist’s meticulous process of observation, preparation and collaboration with his subjects shaped this unique and bold body of work.

Texts in English and French by Taous R. Dahmani and Clément Chéroux.

Published by Loose Joints
Softcover with open spine, gatefolds and multiple paper stocks
172 pages
230 × 340 mm
ISBN  9781912719297

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