KOTAMA BOUABANE
The Rusty Toque | Issue 9 | Visual Art | November 15, 2015
Door & Blinds.
C-Print. 48 x 32 inches. 2014
C-Print. 48 x 32 inches. 2014
Masks.
C-Print. 8 x 10 inches. 2011
C-Print. 8 x 10 inches. 2011
Two Roofs.
C-Print. 16 x 20 inches. 2011
C-Print. 16 x 20 inches. 2011
Pink Mop.
C-Print. 30 x 20 inches. 2010
C-Print. 30 x 20 inches. 2010
Wood Samples.
C-Print. 30 x 20 inches. 2014
C-Print. 30 x 20 inches. 2014
Marble Stand.
C-Print. 8 x 10 inches. 2014
C-Print. 8 x 10 inches. 2014
Cloud.
C-Print. 16 x 20 inches. 2010
C-Print. 16 x 20 inches. 2010
Collage 1 (tile, rocks, vinyl).
C-Print. 36 x 30 inches. 2014
C-Print. 36 x 30 inches. 2014
Collage 2 (curtain, mona, paintings).
C-Print. 36 x 30 inches. 2014
C-Print. 36 x 30 inches. 2014
Wall Collage 3.
Mixed media (Chromogenic Print, Plastic, Mirror). 2014
Mixed media (Chromogenic Print, Plastic, Mirror). 2014
“To state the contrast schematically, anthropological humanism begins with the different and renders it - through naming, classifying, describing, interpreting - comprehensible. It familiarizes. An ethnographic surrealist practice, by contrast, attacks the familiar, provoking the irruption of the otherness - the unexpected”
The Predicament of Culture by James Clifford
Outdated, Updated, Renovated (2014) takes the staging of idealistic trade shows set, and exposes the awkward mechanics behind displays. Images are re-composed, fragmented and collaged to make images within images. The ordinary is shown in the same frame as the postcard imagery, cropped to suggest a strange narrative that exists outside of the fabricated displays.
The installation within the shelf plays off of the photographs in physical space. Photographs combined with objects are rearranged, assembled and disassembled to create a similar illusion that exists within the photos themselves. Existing images that have been re-photograph to stand alongside similar works, that can be re-configured using materials that both reflect and obscure shifting how we view the work.
KOTAMA BOUABANE has an MFA in Studio Arts, Photography from Concordia University, Montreal and a AOCAD from OCAD. His work has been exhibited in many galleries including Centre A (Vancouver), Parisian Laundry (Montreal) & Jen Bekman (New York). He has received awards and grants through the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council & Canada Council for the Arts. He is represented by ESP gallery in Toronto and has an upcoming exhibition at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in the fall of 2016. Website:
kotamabouabane.com
The Predicament of Culture by James Clifford
Outdated, Updated, Renovated (2014) takes the staging of idealistic trade shows set, and exposes the awkward mechanics behind displays. Images are re-composed, fragmented and collaged to make images within images. The ordinary is shown in the same frame as the postcard imagery, cropped to suggest a strange narrative that exists outside of the fabricated displays.
The installation within the shelf plays off of the photographs in physical space. Photographs combined with objects are rearranged, assembled and disassembled to create a similar illusion that exists within the photos themselves. Existing images that have been re-photograph to stand alongside similar works, that can be re-configured using materials that both reflect and obscure shifting how we view the work.
KOTAMA BOUABANE has an MFA in Studio Arts, Photography from Concordia University, Montreal and a AOCAD from OCAD. His work has been exhibited in many galleries including Centre A (Vancouver), Parisian Laundry (Montreal) & Jen Bekman (New York). He has received awards and grants through the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council & Canada Council for the Arts. He is represented by ESP gallery in Toronto and has an upcoming exhibition at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in the fall of 2016. Website:
kotamabouabane.com
