Unlock
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Tang Contemporary Art is proud to present the first exhibition, of Adel Abdessemed in Hong Kong, one of the most emblematic artists of his generation, with a new body of work.
Titled Unlock, the exhibition is an introspective journey into the rugged world of Adel Abdessemed. Embedded in political themes, the work of the Franco-Algerian artist is a response to the situation of the contemporary world crossed by all kinds of convulsive movements. Born in 1971 in Constantine, nine years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, Adel Abdessemed left his homeland under dramatic circumstances in 1994. From drawing to installation, from sculpture to film, he is the author of a large formal repertory composed of mass media images, religious symbols, intoxicating substances, animals and relatives, that he manipulates, stretches and reinvents in a wide variety of approaches. His Christ in barbed wire, his videos of animals’ massacres, his carcasses of folded planes and burnt cars,draw a vision of the world indexed on the horizon of sacrifice, disaster and contemporary traumas. Immigration, violence, misery conveyed by media images are captured and condensed in freeze frames, cropped, enlarged, transposed into sculpture-objects that enhance our experience of reality.
Artist：Adel Abdessemed
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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