Pretextes, 2019 Looped animation projected on paper (no sound), wooden stairs. Variable dimensions. ← Overview WINDSHAPE What is shaped by wind is shaped like wind. Swords, ploughshares. Windshape. De leurs glaives ils forgeront des hoyaux. What is obliterated by man is shaped like man. The sun, a ladder. What lives …
Après-demain, 2016 - 2017 Collection Frac Centre Val de Loire. ← Overview Massinissa Selmani's research focuses on documentary forms and practices of photography. More specifically he explores the use of photography in architecture and the production on meaning. Reflecting on recent debates on the ontology of the architectural image, Massinissa engages with the use of …
Unexpected distances, 2017 -2021 Mixed media installations ← Overview Unexpected distances is a project that creates, through multiple scenarios, situations which evoke the notion of tension. Each scenario has in common a looped video projected on the ground, where a sheet of tracing paper (which contains a graduated part) is placed. The video shows a …
← Overview 1000 villages, 2015. Drawings on double pages and notebook cover. Graphite, marker and transfer on paper and tracing paper. With the support of the 56th Venice Biennale, All the world’s futures, 2015. Collection Frac Centre Val de Loire, Orléans. France. At the beginning of the 70’s, the Algerian government launched a large public-works …
← Overview Souvenir du vide, 2011-2015. 42 animations projected on calque paper cubes. (Projection :168 x 192 cm) With the support of Mode d'emploi, Tours. Collection MAC Lyon, France. In Souvenir du vide Massinissa Selmani draws form it’s the purist pictorial tradition in creating a polyptych. A layout of similar forms filled with images that …