Dresscode, installation view at Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, 2016
image courtesy the artist and Frac LR
photo P. SCHWARTZ

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Dresscode is a solo exhibition by HAMID MAGHRAOUI that is currently presented at the Frac Languedoc-Roussilon in Montpellier.

In 2012, MAGHRAOUI started to collect a certain type of international magazines available in bookshops and supermarkets in Dubaï. Those he collected have all been examined by the censor and in which anything offensive has been crossed out with a black marker. HAMID MAGHRAOUI has selected a series of these defacing images that would not typically be deemed sexual explicit, then he photographed them, reproduced them and finally present them in the form of billboard advertising.

MAGHRAOUI’s installation explores the role of images in our society, and highlight the tensions between what has been, what seems to be, and what could have been; to pick up the traces of forgotten and unresolved issues and divert them towards the viewers’ own reading.

Dresscode by HAMID MAGHRAOUI is on view at the Frac LR in Montpellier until May 14, 2016.

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