Massinissa Selmani

← Overview Amorces dans l'air léger, 2020. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, 50 x 65 cm. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9

← Overview Après l'ordinaire, 2021. Photocopy, graphite, colored pencil, tape on paper and tracing paper, 50 x 38,5 cm. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5

← Overview Pretextes, 2019 Looped animation projected on paper (no sound), wooden stairs. Variable dimensions. 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 …

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS VIEWS Tous les arbres sont des ennemis potentiels. Installation view : FRac Centre Val de Loire, France. 2021. © Photos: Martin Argyroglo Tous les arbres sont des ennemis potentiels. Installation view : FRac Centre Val de Loire, France. 2021. © Photos: Martin Argyroglo Tous les arbres sont des ennemis potentiels. Installation view : …

← Overview Dans quel sens traverser les antipodes, 2018. Installation, variable dimensions. With the support of SAM Art Projects. © Photos : Aurélien Molle - MS

← Overview L'aube insondable, 2018 - 2020 Graphite and coloured 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

← Overview Après-demain, 2016 - 2017 Collection Frac Centre Val de Loire. 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 …

← Overview Unexpected distances. Scenario #1, 2017 -2021 Mixed media installation (wood panel - Kraft paper – stone – 7 drawings on tracing paper - print on paper (81 x 78 cm), drawing on tracing paper, tape – video projected on the floor, graphite on tracing paper, tape). Commissioned by the 13th Sharjah Biennial, 2017 …

← Overview Résolutions, 2017. Colored pencil on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7