Al-Tiba9 Algiers 2015
EXHIBITION | 01.09.2015 - 30.09.2015
VENUE | Bardo National Museum, 03 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Algiers.
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art & Performance
3rd Edition Statement
Through creation and culture in general we feel that our time is taken away by a disturbing and threatening uproar. Yet our microcosm thirsts for renewal, of a heavenly surge, maybe an imaginable world.
Even though the West has continued to send imagination to other lands, it always comes out the back door, basking in its hard-won freedom. Unfortunately it has not always been able to reach its own spheres: the reason is on stand-by, and its law is relentless. Our land is perhaps a bit more complicated than that, it has been abused. Heavenly blessing lurks in the minds not making too much noise for fear of disturbing, but reappearing at random times and painful history. Yet, reality is first an imaginary fact, the creative imagination addresses the true meaning of our history, supra-sensitivity of the people, it is revealing and transformative. The reality is even more fantastic than what we may imagine; Science and Art are there to remind us. Bachelard wrote “The imagination is not as suggested by the etymology of the ability to form images of reality; it is the ability to distort images…. And to form images that exceed…it is the faculty of superhumanity”.
The imagination is our freedom; it is not separated from the rational or the spiritual. It allows to not stay locked in the existents, to project ourselves out of us, to flirt with the human limits enlightened by its own reasoning, to face the obstacles and the needs, to freely adhere to the truth".
Artists
Luca Rossini, Maura Manfredi, Mazia Djab, Nadjib Benmokhtar, Safia Amara, Abdou Cheref, Albert Coma Bau, Mo' Mohamed Benhadj, Richter Meyer Marx, Valentina Ferrandes, Meng Chih Chiang, Amine Aitouche.
