adel abdessemed

ADEL ABDESSEMED
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Untitled (Three Snakes), 2009
Adel Abdessemed was born in 1971 in Constantine, Algeria. He currently lives and
works in Paris. Abdessemed transforms well-known materials and imagery into
unexpected and charged artistic declarations, working across a wide range of media,
including drawing, video, photography, performance, and sculpture. Pulling freely
from a myriad of sources—personal, historical, social, and political—his visual
language is simultaneously rich and economical, sensitive and controversial, radical
and mundane. His art addresses the underlying effects of globalised society on the
individual, often using his own personal circumstances as a point of departure.
In 2012, his work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at Centre Georges
Pompidou in Paris. His work can also be found in numerous prominent international
collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva; Musée d’Art Moderne de
la Ville de Paris; Fondation François Pinault, Venice and the Yuz Foundation, Hong
Kong.
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