Monument to Revolution, 2012
study for the 4th Marrakech Biennale

courtesy of the artist

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On the 29th of February of 2012, the Marrakech Biennale launches its fourth edition, HIGHER ATLAS, curated by NADIM SAMMAN and CARSON CHAN, featuring a number of young artists including JON NASH, KARTHIK PANDIAN or ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC among others.

Previously featured on WFW, ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC needs no introduction. For this Biennale, she has built an abstract geometric fist recovered with tadelakt (a typical Moroccan limestone finishing) emerging from the ground to a height of more than four metres and modelled on an existing monument from ex-Yugoslavia that was built in 1963: It’s an abstract modernist monument from the series state-commissioned constructions that were all monuments against fascism. It symbolises three raised fists, so it’s a good symbole of the revolution and resistance, and that can be combined with what’s happening currently in the Arab world.

Monument to Revolution is currently on view in the Moulay Abdeslam Cyber Park in Marrakech until the 3rd June 2012.

And good news: ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC will have a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel from 1st April to 27 May, 2012.