À chaque stencil une révolution/ For Each Stencil a Revolution. 2007-2010. Installation, carbon paper A4, glue, methyl alcohol

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Young French artist born in Morocco and recently relocated to Switzerland LATIFA ECHAKHCH’s À chaque stencil une révolution is an installation selected by curator SIMON LAMUNIÈRE for Art Unlimited within Art Basel context 2010.

The room is entirely covered by A4 sheets of a blue carbon splashed by her with paint thinning solvent so that the blue seeps down, gathering in pools at the bottom of the walls. At the same time its title is a quotation from YASSER ARAFAT commenting on the proliferation of the political demonstration in the late of ’60, when carbon paper was used to print multiple copies of revolutionary leaflets.

“I found a carbon paper by chance and I was attracted first by the color and because it was somehow reminding me of my childhood, when primary school teachers used it to print multiples copies of homework for all of us, schoolboys. At the same time Carbon paper is a surreptitious technology – very easy, very cheap, very clandestine. You don’t need a lot of devices so that was perfectly fitting with revolutionary targets.

It is an installation with a double feeling and two instant emotions. You are immediately attracted to the color from the beginning but when you move closer you can realize that it is not so harmonic. I like this duality.” – by LATIFA ECHAKHCH for Domus

LATIFA ECHAKHCH uses her identity and experience to question pre-conceived ideas about nationality, religion, and history. Intellectually challenging, but at once sensual, the artist’s work explores society in an increasingly globalized world.