Hicham Berrada - Aléas
In the organizer's words:
Hicham Berrada's artistic practice resembles that of a painter whose materials are not paint and canvas, but the natural laws to which reality and all matter obey. His installations, sculptures, video works and performances are based on scientific studies, which he uses to activate the forces of ecological processes and the elements.
While Berrada first defines certain parameters, he then transfers control to the elemental force. Using the means of nature, he thus creates dreamlike worlds that are in a state of suspension between becoming and passing away. He does not paint landscapes or poetic universes, but uses chemical substances and physical reactions to create them in process-like works that unfold dynamically in time and space.
The fact that the artist orchestrates, initiates, manipulates and simulates natural processes nevertheless miraculously demonstrates that nature is incalculable and that the composition of reality could be completely different. Following Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, it shows that both the earth and the universe are subject to the random fluctuations of atoms that are invisible to the human eye. Aléas means coincidences and the works in the exhibition make these fluctuations visible by triggering their aesthetic potential.
Hicham Berrada was born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, and lives and works in Roubaix, France. His works have been exhibited in groups and solo exhibitions, including at the Louvre, Lens, Punta della Dogana, Museum of the Pinault Collection, Venice, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Abbey Notre-Dame-La-Royale de Maubuisson, Palace of Versailles (garden), Paris, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Frankfurter Kunstverein, MoMA PS1, New York and Moderna Museet, Stockholm as well as at the Taipei Biennale, Taiwan (2020) and the Lyon Biennale (2017). Works by the artist can be found in the public and private collections of, among others: Futurium, Berlin, Mercedes Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart, Pinault Collection, Paris / Venice, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf.
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