← Overview Amorces dans l'air léger, 2020. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, 50 x 65 cm. La série Amorce dans l’air léger assemble des éléments pour mettre en scène des situations étranges, voire absurdes, teintées d'une certaine gravité ; elles laissent deviner les signes d'un tragique latent ou les prémices d'une violence insaisissable à venir. …
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 …
← Overview L'aube insondable, 2018 - 2020 Graphite and colored pencil on paper. #1, 2018. 105 x 80 cm #2, 2018. 105 x 80 cm #3, 2018. 105 x 80 cm #4, 2020. 75 x 100 cm #5, 2021. 75 x 100 cm #6, 2021. 50 x 65 cm
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 …
Poetics of the political Mathias Énard Drawing could be taken for something fragile. Graphite would be delicate, frail, a project’s preliminary state; suited for the draft, the sketch, the outline. This would not account for Massinissa Selmani’s determination. Because humility does not mean renunciation or the absence of resolution. Quite the contrary. Selmani’s trajectory, as …
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 …