KADER ATTIA

Mythes et poésie du vide

May 17 - June 28

Galerie Anne de Villepoix

43 rue de Montmorency

75003 Paris

Tel 01.42.78.32.24

info@annedevillepoix.com

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FROM his show at ICA, Boston, MA, from November 2007 - March 2:

"Human beings create things, but emptiness gives them meaning."

This quotation from Chinese philosopher Lao Tzeo is at the core of Kader Attia's new work for Momentum 9,  the artist's first solo exhibition in the U.S. The French-Algerian artist made waves with his 2005 installation Flying Rats, in which children sculpted from birdseed disappeared as they shared a life-sized playground with live pigeons.  More recently, his recent series of works titled Ghost depicted women at prayer with vacant, aluminum foil body casts.

His new work also evokes the theme of absence. Attia grew up in a Parisian suburb, the child of Algerian immigrants.  His recollections of sleeping five kids to a room, on beds made of wooden boards and pieces of cheap foam, inspire his work for the ICA. A crowded... (more)

(Image: Kader Attia, Sleeping from Memory, 2007, from exhibition at ICA, Boston.  Image courtesy of the artist and Christian Nagel Gallery, Cologne.  Photo: John Kennard.)