"Sometimes, dreams feel like a coma. We do not know when we are going to wake up. I have made a tremendous effort to stop dreaming.“
Mounir Fatmi is a contemporary Moroccan artist whose multimedia work combines installation, sculpture, video, drawing, painting, and even writing. At the crossroads of Western and Eastern cultures, he develops a critical and aesthetic approach which runs contrary to political, religious, or social dogmas. Mounir Fatmi uses obsolete materials such as antenna cables, old typewriters, or VHS tapes, and works from a notion of experimental archeology. Beyond his work on représentation and established codes, he focuses on the ambiguities and doubts of contemporary society, its violence, and its paradoxes. His work, which takes the form of an immense network, crosses various fields of knowledge, from science to philosophy, from techniques to politics.