Signal. Mohamed Bourouissa

The confinement of bodies and thoughts, the representation of identities, the determination and control of languages, healing through plants, music and colour, parallel economies, alienation and resistance... Mohamed Bourouissa's work draws on intimate experiences to create collective narratives rooted in bitterness (seum, in Arabic). This first retrospective in a national institution is an opportunity to unfold the artist's work, from his most recent productions to his beginnings, including creations by artist friends, like so many bursts in time, without worrying about being exhaustive or chronological. As the earth is narrow to him, the exhibition brings together several geographies, from Blida (Algeria), the artist's home town, where psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon developed an analysis of mental alienation at the heart of colonial domination, to Gennevilliers, where the artist lives and is very active locally, via Fletcher Street (Philadelphia) and its community of black cowboys to the skies over Gaza.