CV120 - Taysir Batniji, Quelques bribes arrachées au vide qui se creuse — Érika Nimis
Ciel variable 120 - Figures of Affirmation (Summer 2022)
Exhibitions (Individual article, digital version)
Taysir Batniji, Quelques bribes arrachées au vide qui se creuse
MAC VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
From November 18 2021 to February 19 2022
— Éria Nimis
This retrospective, of a “rare coherence,” in Érika Nimis’s view, displayed Taysir Batniji’s “personal alphabet” in some fifty works. Batniji, born in Palestine, addresses questions inherent to his life, such as displacement, borders, and exile, by mixing forms and genres and using materials sampled from what Georges Perec called the “infra-ordinary.” “Batniji,” writes Nimis, “stages fragility, or what remains of a person, an object, or an image.” The ephemeral and the undefined mark his practice, from a botched photo-booth strip found in Paris to photographs of guard towers, a series that pastiches the Bechers’ water towers. Nimis notes how nods to art history help “to decipher a body of work that documents the Israel–Palestine situation through ‘scraps,’ never frontally.”
Details
Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1.7 Mb
Bibliographical Notice
Érika Nimis, “Taysir Batniji, Quelques bribes arrachées au vide qui se creuse” in Ciel variable, No. 120, Montreal, 2022, p. 90-93.