Opening : 18 March, 15h00-20h00
Exhibition : 18 March – 22 April 2023
+ Opening by appointment : info@v2vingt.net
Badi Rezzak’s solo exhibition Les Jardins de Malika embraces tenderness and the pursuit of identity through displacement. Built out of visual vocabularies that bridge the pictorial and the decorative, comprising organic contours and geometric patterns, tonal atmospheres and linear perspectives, the installation brings together both old and recent works. Populated by highly stylized forms and flowering plants with orientalist allegories, the works plunge us into a fictional garden untainted by the violence of the everyday. Rooted in his return to Algeria - its desert, his father’s heimat, and Kabylia, his mother’s place of burial - Rezzak’s works invite their public to partake in the same process of refiguring and recognition of one’s positioning in personal as well as historic and imaginary narratives. The loving embrace of Rezzak’s orientalist ornaments and itinerant contours, then, is a reminder of our small yet wide world and of the ripples of diaspora and home, wherever that may be.
This exhibition was produced in collaboration with Moussem and Mosso, curated by Estelle Lecaille and Aude Tournaye, and made possible by the support of the 'fédération Wallonie Bruxelles'.
The artist collaborated with Aide led by Lola Martins-Coignus for the production of the project.
Opening : 18 March, 15h00-20h00
Exhibition : 18 March – 22 April 2023
+ Opening by appointment : info@v2vingt.net
Badi Rezzak’s solo exhibition Les Jardins de Malika embraces tenderness and the pursuit of identity through displacement. Built out of visual vocabularies that bridge the pictorial and the decorative, comprising organic contours and geometric patterns, tonal atmospheres and linear perspectives, the installation brings together both old and recent works. Populated by highly stylized forms and flowering plants with orientalist allegories, the works plunge us into a fictional garden untainted by the violence of the everyday. Rooted in his return to Algeria - its desert, his father’s heimat, and Kabylia, his mother’s place of burial - Rezzak’s works invite their public to partake in the same process of refiguring and recognition of one’s positioning in personal as well as historic and imaginary narratives. The loving embrace of Rezzak’s orientalist ornaments and itinerant contours, then, is a reminder of our small yet wide world and of the ripples of diaspora and home, wherever that may be.
