Last oneAtelier: Farah Khelil
(Exhibition Edition)
January10th, 2024
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Artist portrait photo (c) frederic iovino
Photo credits Farah Khelil - ADAGP and Romain Darnaud.
Our next visit will be a special one to Farah Khelil's solo exhibition, 'Car la figure de ce monde passe', at lilia ben salah gallery on January 10th, 2024 in central Paris (6, avenue Delcassé, 75008 Paris). In her solo exhibition, Farah will discuss her practice of thinking about painting, reproduction, it’s limits, and it’s relationship to other mediums with the audience. We will have the opportunity to engage in a profound discussion with her to gain a complete understanding of her creative process and benefit from seeing the results at the same time.
FARAH KHELIL
Car la figure de ce monde passe
29.09.2023 | 2.12.2023
lilia ben salah gallery
6, avenue Delcassé, 75008 Paris
lilia ben salah gallery presents “Car la figure de ce monde passe” [For the Fashion of this World Passeth Away], a solo exhibition by Farah Khelil accompanied by curator and art critic Andréanne Béguin.
This monographic exhibition, For the Fashion of this World Passeth Away [Car la figure de ce monde passe], invites the viewer to dive into Farah Khelil's research and work, examining intimate, cultural, mental and pictorial image-making. We go into the image through the landscape, which the artist peels, distills, covers and obliterates through painting and collage, until she shows us its figure, and makes us feel its mechanical, graphic and schematic character, formatted by colonial domination and the hyper-production, dissemination and circulation of images.
She invites us to a distillation of history, by appropriating and fragmenting it to better tackle a hierarchical and overhanging system of thought. Her practice focuses on decolonizing the pictorial language, in order to draw the contours of an environmental and atmospheric history of art, beyond the fictitious and dominant history of modern art.
Each series presented in the exhibition retains a simple pictorial principle: her painting comes to lay onto other elements, transforming the figure of the landscape into a sum of memories, textures, colors, reliefs, sensations, and contrasts. Each series is linked to the others by this principle of accumulation and invites us to view the landscape according to a geological gaze, which allows the superposition of the different layers. The effect of a sectional landscape then occurs visually, as if it were sliced.
Between dreamlike experience and myth deconstruction, Farah Khelil relieves the landscape of its normative value and opens up the possibility of liberating and dreaming it.
Andréanne Beguin, curator and art critic Translation by Clémence Dem
About Farah:
Farah Khelil studied at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis and holds a doctorate in arts and art sciences from the School of Arts at the Sorbonne (France). Combining artist's books, painting, photography,video, drawing, and installation, her work draws on intimacy and philosophy. Through both the visual and the conceptual, her practice questions the relationship to image, language and history. Since 2006,Farah Khelil has taken part in numerous exhibitions in museums, galleries and international art fairs. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including the Fiminco Foundation (Romainville,France), LAAC (Dunkerque, France), Cité des Arts (Paris, France), Pernod Ricard Foundation (Paris, France), National Museum of Archeology ofUmbria (Perouse, Italy), L'ahah (Paris, France), Le Cube (Rabat,Morocco), Transmitter (New York, USA), HandelStreet Projects (London,UK), Venice Biennale (Italy), Manart AlSaadiyat Cultural Center (AbuDhabi), Le Center Culturel de Cerisy (Normandy, France). She was nominated for the 2019 AWARE Prize. She has received various grants including from the ArabFund for Arts and Culture, Goethe-Institut Tunis and the CAORC-CEMAT research grant. Her works are part of the collections of the British Museum, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, FRACNormandie, Center for Artists' Books (Limousin) and the Paris Collections Contemporary Art Fund.