EXHIBITIONS HAMDI ATTIA
ARCHIPELAGO, A WORLD MAP
The exhibition Archipelago, a World Map by Hamdi Attia is the so far last manifestation of a long term project titled World Map developed by the artist since 2004, and his first solo exhibition in Norway. Curated by Abdellah Karroum.
Through an all embracing installation based on real maps we are presented with a fictive world housing discussions on how representation hides and reveals, the relation between history and geography, and what role the artist plays in society. Map elements of Palestinian territories create an image of a possible world.
For this exhibition we publish a new interview with the artist written by curator Abdellah Karroum.
This is the second of a series of three solo exhibitions this spring at Hordaland Art Centre. We highlight three strong individual voices and investigate their views on our times.
Hordaland Art Centre hosts a presentation in relation to the exhibition April 22nd at 7 PM by artist and researcher Matthew Flintham. Flintham’s current project, Parallel Landscapes concerns the analysis and visualisation of militarised space in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image research group.
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Hamdi Attia (1964, Assiut, Egypt) lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and Chicago, USA. He studied Fine Arts in Cairo, Roma and Philadelphia. Attia has participated in international exhibitions, including the Canaries Islands Biennial in 2006 and Cairo Biennial in 1997. He represented Egypt at the Venice Biennial in 1995, taking the top pavilion prize with Akram Al-Magdoub. A version of his work World Map was exhibited at L’appartement 22 in 2007. His work engages an experimental vocabulary, using video, mapping as well as drawings and sculpture. Currently Attia is working on a painting project connecting his practice from early 1990s and 2000s, challenging his art and its reception in Egyptian society.
Abdellah Karroum (1970, in the Rif, Morocco) is an independent curator and founder of several projects, including Le Bout Du Monde, art expeditions undertaken since 2000, the independent art space L’appartement 22 and the experimental web based radio RADIOapartment22. Karroum was co-curator for the Dak’Art Biennale 2006 and Position Papers-curator in the 7th Gwangju Bienniale 2008. In 2009 he curated A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places at the 3rd AiM Internationale Biennale Festival in Marrakech. Morocco. He leads a laboratory titled Art Technology and Ecology at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ESAV) in Marrakech, Morocco.
The exhibition Archipelago, a World Map by Hamdi Attia is curated Abdellah Karroum and produced by Hordaland Art Centre.
