Representative work by Mounir Fatmi
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Artist

Mounir Fatmi

b. 1970, Tangier, Morocco · Moroccan

  • School of Fine Arts of Casablanca
  • Academy of Fine Arts of Rome
  • Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Mounir Fatmi uses obsolete technologies, electrical cable, language, architecture and religious or political imagery to examine authority, censorship and technological change. Typewriters, VHS tapes and communication devices often appear as cultural ruins.

Installation; video; sculpture; drawing

Major Works

  • 2003–07Save Manhattan
  • 2010Technologia
  • 2010Maximum Sensation
  • 2004The Machinery
  • 2004Brainteaser for Moderate Muslim
  • 2005–12Sleep Al Naim
  • 2011The Lost Springs
  • 2010Modern Times, A History of the Machine
  • 2007Obstacle
  • 2010Between the Lines

Interviews & Writing

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