still from KADER ATTIA, Arab Spring, 2014
at Art Basel Unlimited, 15 June 2015

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Monday June 15, 2015. Art Basel Unlimited preview. 16 glass vitrines; all empty. On the floor; stones, boulders and bricks. One artist, KADER ATTIA – a hoodie sweater hiding his face – starts to smash the cabinets with the projectiles found on the feet of the glass cases.

The piece – both performance and sculptural installation – is entitled Arab Spring (2014) and consists of the reenactment of the destruction of the Egypt museum in Cairo that happened in 2011. As for his previous works, this intervention that features in a fascinating way the riot debris raises relevant and actual questions concerning political and social issues, and more specifically for this work ‘what does the destruction of cultures mean‘ according to the artist.

KADER ATTIA is currently having a solo exhibition entitled The Injury Are Here at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne that is running through August 30, 2015. Make sure to watch the performance via https://vimeo.com/131020880

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