Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Hicham Benohoud

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    (c)image: M HKA, Antwerp
    870 petites images coupées, 2004
    Hicham Benohoud
    Photography , 116 x 89 cm
    silver gelatine print

    The photos of Hicham Benohoud originate in a reserve against the Islamic traditions, culture, power and society. His work is both staged and documentary and touches both the tragic, playful and absurd. He uses the body, often his own body, in order to develop a reflection about identity, individuality, freedom and integrity. Values that are often threatened by social and cultural constraints. An example can be found in the work Petites images coupées, 2004. Through the repetition of the same portrait he reduces the image of man to an object. The work is a mysterious picture of cover and display, decoration and defamation, humanity and alienation.

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