Projects, Généalogie de la Violence
Généalogie de la Violence 2024
Imagine a film about police brutality, with no brutality. A film where nothing happens, yet you’re left baffled. Invisible violence, disguised under lawful humiliation. Domination wrapped in polite protocols. I started talking about making this short film back in 2018, but the idea of it was haunting me probably since the late 90s, when I started being constantly stopped by the police for “random identity checks”.
I felt a certain urgency to tell this very personal story.
With the series of sculptures in cast aluminium that can be read as an esquisse to Généalogie de la Violence wider project, Mohamed Bourouissa aims to convey the intimate sensations that a formal procedure can induce, the traces that a systematic judicial practice can leave, both on and in the body. These sculptures represent moments of palpation during body searches. They evoke a tension between body parts and the hands that palpate it and reveal a point of contact between social bodies and a state body. The artist reveals an intimate experience of what the notion of control imposes in terms of bodily dispossession. The interiority of this experience is reflected by the void in the works. Through them, Mohamed Bourouissa represents an emotional dynamic that involves the enactment of two male bodies, highlighting the power dynamics and domination by one body over another.
Technical list:
Original scenario: Mohamed Bourouissa, Jean-René Étienne, Abdoulaziz Touré.
With the participation of David Pickering.
Director of Photography: Paul Guilhaume
Image editing: Rafael Torres-Calderon
Sound engineer: Alix Clément
Sound editing: Capitaine Plouf
Mix: Sébastien Cannas, Maxime Vanderbeck
Original soundtrack: Lyla
Decor: Benoist Buttin
Costumes: Marion Brillouet
Post-production coordination: Cécilia Déchaud
Production Director: Fabrice Godin
Casting: Judith Chalier
Shown at :
• PALAS Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2024
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2024
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Genealogy of Violence, Video (color, sound) © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP, DIVISION
Production: DIVISION and Studio Mohamed Bourouissa
With the support of CNC, ARTE France, Mennour, Paris, BLUM Los Angeles and Palais de Tokyo.
Pierrot, Series of sculptures in cast aluminum, 2023
Photo: Mennour Gallery
Mehdi Anede, Series of sculptures in cast aluminum, 2023
Photo: Mennour Gallery
Fauteuil et Palpation, Series of sculptures in cast aluminum, 2023
Photo: Mennour Gallery
Fauteuil et Palpation, Exhibition View, Series of sculptures in cast aluminum, 2023
Photo: Mennour Gallery
Genealogy of Violence, Exhibition view, Mohamed Bourouissa, SIGNAL, Palais de Tokyo, 16.02.2024 - 30.06.2024. Photo: Aurélien Mole. © ADAGP, Paris,2024
Genealogy of Violence, Exhibition view, Mohamed Bourouissa, SIGNAL, Palais de Tokyo, 16.02.2024 - 30.06.2024. Photo: Aurélien Mole. © ADAGP, Paris,2024