While the Storm Arrives

Es Baluard Museum, Palma

March 17 - June 19, 2022

Curator: Fernando Go?mez de la Cuesta 

 

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“While the Storm Arrives” is a project for our tumultuous times in which mounir fatmi assesses the sheer weight of accounts and commentaries we increasingly have to bear—physically and intellectually violent narratives that have marked our past and are now shaping our future.

 

Around the large central installation Inside the Fire Circle 02, the artist forges a metaphor of the construction of history, the factors conditioning it, the interests governing it and the manipulations radiated by the dominant power, while still leaving a chink of hope that this hamstrung, unhinged and indolent society might somehow rouse itself to search for change that has never been needed so urgently.

 

Three new pieces have been specially created for this project: The Point of No Return, in which fatmi explores the idea of a world invaded by information where everything has been turned into often complex and incomprehensible data, graphs and symbols that synthesise and transmute our relationship with reality; the eponymous Before the Storm, a large painted installation with clear references to the decorative tradition in Islamic art in which a disturbing set of polychrome arabesques reflects the tense times we are currently living through; and Poems: The Missing Show, which takes the form of a poetic video that engages us in questions related to the fear of others, exclusion, xenophobia and the fateful danger of stereotypes, generalisations and prejudices that emanate from the slogans created by the hegemony of empire. These three new works are accompanied by two existing pieces: The Angel’s Black Leg (2011) and History Is Not Mine (2013).

 

Es Baluard Museum, March 2022