Artists

Mohamed Buorouissa, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Wifredo Lam, Leonora Carrington

Press release

Curated by: Mohamed Bourouissa

For the exhibition at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna, curator Mohamed Bourouissa proposes an unexpected approach to sharing stories. Is it possible to capture infinity in an outline? Does this exhibition, entitled The Language of Chimeras, allow him to articulate a vision based on new values or new chimeras?

The juxtaposition of the artists Wifredo Lam, Mohamed Bourouissa, Leonora Carrington and Neïla Czemak Ichti allows us to grasp the notion of global instability. How can we fail to see that these new connections produce a reversal of meaning?

Mohamed Bourouissa declares that his decision to handwrite Aimé Césaire’s poem on the gallery walls in order to accompany Lam’s drawings reveals the importance of the concept of language. It is a way of entering into communion and complicity with the artist and the poet.

For a poet represents, above all, human nature in its purest form. Deeply rooted in language, poets transcend human nature. Mohamed Bourouissa has always been part of the here and now. He is a person of the eternal present. He is both a stranger and a native of the same land and the same language as the artists mentioned above. For him, art is, in a certain form, a mother tongue.