Projects, Périphérique
Périphérique 2005-2008
In this breakthrough series of photographs, Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting. The artist composed his photos by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in the Paris banlieues where they used to hang out. Confrontations, gatherings, incidents, looks, and frozen gestures all suggest a palpably dramatic tension. Readings of these images were inflected from the start by the violence of the 2005 riots in the French banlieues. Invoking Delacroix as much as Jeff Wall, the artist appears to give a place in French history to agents whom that country usually neglects.
Périphérique series of color photographs, c-print, variable sizes Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP
Shown at :
• Sweat, Haus Der Kunst, München (DE), 2021-2022
• HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK), 2021-2022
• HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!, Goldsmiths CCA, London (UK), 2021
• Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (UK), 2020
• Libre échange, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), 2019
• Photo Saint-Germain 2017, Musée National Eugène Delacroix, Paris (FR), 2017
• The Photographic I - Other Pictures, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), 2017
• How to live together, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Wien (AT), 2017
• Hustling, Basis, Frankfurt (DE), 2016
• The sea is my land. Artists from the Mediterranean, Triennale di Milano, Milan (IT), 2014
• The Divine Comedy, touring at MMK, Frankfurt am Main (DE), Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC (US), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES), Correo, Venice (IT), Hayward Gallery, London (UK), National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (ZW), Frith Street Gallery, London (UK), 2014 - 2015
• Festival PhotoMed, Sanary-sur-Mer (FR), 2015
• Banlieue is beautiful, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), 2014
• History, seen by artists, touring at Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (FR),MARCO, Museo de Art Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo 5ES) and PhotoEspaña, Madrid (ES), 2014
• FALSEFAKES, CPG-Centre de la Photographie, Genève (SZ), 2013
• Metropolis: Reflexion on the Modern City, Gas Hall, Birmingham (UK), 2013
• Copenhagen Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (NL), 2012
• Prix Pictet, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK), 2012
• Snapshots of a Generation, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (DE), 2011
• L’art est un sport de combat, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais (FR), 2011
• ANGRY: Young and Radical, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL), 2011
• Nouveaux tableaux parisiens, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris (FR), 2011
• Alternatives to memories, Galerie d’Art et d’Essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes (FR), 2010
La bascule, 2006, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Le miroir, 2006, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
La bascule, 2006, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Le miroir, 2006, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Carré rouge, 2005, C-print, 80 x 120 cm
Périphérique, 2007, C-print, 106 x 160 cm
Le reflet, 2009, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Périphérique, 2007, C-print, 106 x 160 cm
Le reflet, 2009, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
La fenêtre, 2005, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La prise, 2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La fenêtre, 2005, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La prise, 2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le toit, 2007, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
Le groupe, 2007-2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le toit, 2007, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
Le groupe, 2007-2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le téléphone, 2006, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le poing, 2007-2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le téléphone, 2006, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le poing, 2007-2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La butte, 2007, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le cercle imaginaire, 2007-2008, C-print, 137 x 165 cm
La butte, 2007, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le cercle imaginaire, 2007-2008, C-print, 137 x 165 cm
La république, 2006, C-print, 137 x 165 cm
L’impasse, 2007, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
La république, 2006, C-print, 137 x 165 cm
L’impasse, 2007, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
Le couloir, 2007-2008, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
La morsure, 2007, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
Le couloir, 2007-2008, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
La morsure, 2007, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La rencontre, 2005, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La rencontre, 2005, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La rencontre, 2005, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La main, 2008, C-print, 90 x 120 cm
La chaise, 2007, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Le hall, 2007-2008, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
La chaise, 2007, C-print, 120 x 90 cm
Le hall, 2007-2008, C-print, 120 x 160 cm
Exhibition view of Sweat, Haus Der Kunst, München (DE), 2021-2022. Photographs : Maximilian Geuter
Exhibition view of HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK), 2021-2022. Photographs : David Stjernholm
Exhibition view of Périphériques, Goldsmiths CCA, London (UK), 2021 © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP. Photographs: Mark Blower.
Exhibition view of Périphériques, Goldsmiths CCA, London (UK), 2021 © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP. Photographs: Mark Blower.
Exhibition view of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (UK), 2020 © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP. Photographs: Kate Elliot
Exhibition view of Libre échange, at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Arles (FR), 2019 © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP. Photographs : Victor&Simon
Exhibition view of Libre échange, at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Arles (FR), 2019 © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP. Photographs : Victor&Simon