In Conversation with Abdelkader Benchamma and Noor Alé
Sun Oct 15 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Abdelkader Benchamma, Trees - Cosmatesque, 2023. Ink on paper mounted on canvas. Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris – Brussels – New York. Photo: BEURDELEY.
On Saturday, a French artist Abdelkader Benchamma will get together with the curator of Solastalgia: Archaeologies Of Loss exhibition, Noor Alé, to talk about their collaborative work on this show and the complex motifs prevalent in Benchamma’s artistic practice.
Born in 1975 in Mazamet (France), Abdelkader Benchamma lives and works in Paris and Montpellier. Benchamma chooses to work in a sole medium: drawings. He adopts different approaches to the drawing process, sometimes moving across a sheet of paper with the meticulous strokes of an engraver, sometimes spreading over a wall with lavish gestures that appropriate the space. The matter escapes from the frame in a form of organic growth. Inspired by literature, philosophy, astrophysics and esoteric reflections, his works create visual scenarios that question our relationship to reality as they probe the frontiers of the invisible.
