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Beni Rugs & Colin King present Spoken Lines with installation by Amine El Gotaibi.

As often in his work, Mustapha Azeroual revives an ancient process of printing with gum bichromate 1 requiring both patience and concentration, but especially leaving the sublime part to chance. Here, contingency and materiality reign. For the series Monade(s) - whose title refers to a philosophical concept of Leibniz designating the minimal unit of perception - flashes of light of high intensity, close to burning or radiation, print sumptuous luminous halos on the surface of the paper. (...) Mustapha Azeroual's photograms are based on a paradoxical process of blinding, giving form to visual and geometric traces that are as invisible as they are indelible, like so many flashes of light, in all its unthinkable disappearance.

Through this photographic series, the artist Aurele ANDREWS-BENMEJDOUB evokes the burning themes of genealogy and personal identity. The angle that the artist approaches for this exhibition is not a fixed angle. According to him, it is not a simple reproduction of reality, but the creation of something different and unique. The series poses and attempts to answer a multitude of questions millennia ago: Who am I? What is my place? Is it according to what I think I am, what I could be or would like to be? Is it only determined by my cultural, religious or geographical affiliations? One or several conjugations of reality? Identity, my identity? The existential anxiety associated with the tormented and inconstant nature of the world?