Kader Attia & François Gemenne

On Repairing & the impact of global warming on populations

In the light of current times, the Foundation is broadening its field of exploration to include ecological issues through a series of online and live conversations “Creators facing the climate emergencys”. Artists, scientists and searchers are invited to question today’s world and create new narratives to draw more desirable futures:

Which commitment and responsibility do the artist and the philosopher have regarding this crisis?
How are artistic and writing practices impacted? Which behaviour should individually and collectively be implemented?
How to produce without destroying?

Themes: The impact of global warming on migratory flows / The notion of reparation / A universal income for the artist / The creation of an anti-IPCC open to civil society / The IPCC report as a reflection material for the artist / How do the artist and the scientist collaborate to accelerate the ecological transition?

Cited references
Annie Le Brun, Juri Armanda, Ceci tuera cela, Stock, 2021 Hergé, Tintin au Tibet, Casterman, 1958

Speakers

Kader Attia (born in 1970 in Dugny) grew up between France and Algeria and has been developing for the past twenty years a multidisciplinary practice nourished by his multicultural roots. He explores the perspective of societies on their history, notably the privatisation and repression, the violence and loss, and the way they affect the evolution of individuals and the nations, both connected to the collective memory. His research has brought him to the idea of reparation, a concept he philosophically developed in his writings and symbolically through his art. The principle of reparation being a constant in nature - is within humanity, that all living systems, social or cultural, can be considered as an infinite process of reparation, closely related to loss and wounds.

His work has been shown in many international exhibits, notably, at the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Hayward Gallery in London, MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the S.M.A.K in Ghent, and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. His work has also been shown at the 12th Biennale of Gwangju, the 12th Biennale of Shanghai, the 12th Manifesta, Palermo, the 57th Venice Biennale, and dOCUMENTA(13).

Curator of the Berlin Biennale 2022, winner of the Joan Miró (2017) and of the Marcel Duchamp prize (2016), Kader Attia is represented by the galleries Continua, Lehmann Maupin, and Nagel Draxler.