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Born in 1970 in Tangier (Morocco), Mounir Fatmi lives and works both in Paris and his home city. He studied fine arts first in Casablanca until 1989 and then until 1991 he continued in Rome, Italy.
Through his installations, sculptures, videos, photographs and drawings, Mounir Fatmi proposes a vision of the world which is playing with conventions and rules. He approaches social subjects perceived as controversial, for example, desecration of religious symbols, deconstruction, end of dogmas and ideologies. The artist likes to be a bit provocative, he questions and attacks the idea of power and extremism (both political and artistic). His works reveal ambiguities, doubts, fears and desires of his public. Sometimes they point out with cynicism current problems, especially the ones discovered by accident, in order to unfold their inner structure.
Recently, the festival of contemporary creation in Toulouse and Mounir Fatmi decided to present one of his works (a video installation called “Technologia”), which was banned because of the protest of Muslims offended by the fact that visitors were stepping on the verses of Koran projected on the floor.
Mounir Fatmi received numerous prizes, among which are: the prize of Biennial of Cairo in 2010, the Uriôt prize in Amsterdam and the Léopold Sédar Senghor prize at the 7th Biennial of Dakar in 2006.
His work was presented at numerous solo exhibitions, for example, at Migros Museum für Gegenarskunst de Zürich, Musée Picasso, FRAC Alsace de Sélestat, Centre d’art contemporain le Parvis or Fondazione Collegio San Carlo in Modena, Italy.
