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Beloufa in Chinatown

by Ed Schad
Neïl Beloufa at François Ghebaly Gallery September 9th, 2009 - October 30th, 2009
Posted 9/14/09

The art we make today – frequently fractured and scattered – often assumes that older and more unified ways of thinking have been either lost entirely or are being replaced. Neïl Beloufa’s current show at Francois Ghebaly's new space takes a different, perhaps more honest approach. His film Kempinski, shot in Mali completely unscripted and simply allowing people in Mali a moment to speak, reveals animist, ancient ways of thinking coexisting in a modern world, and this truth about the... [more]

The Future is in Present Tense

by Natalie Hegert
r a d i o q ua l i a, Neïl Beloufa, Pesijn Broersen, Heman Chong, Graham Ellard, Johannes Heldén, Stephen Johnstone, Ann Lislegaard, Margit Lukács, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Semiconductor, Mark Aerial Waller at Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo/Time Based Arts February 14th, 2009 - April 25th, 2009
Posted 4/5/09

When you're in Amsterdam make sure to stop by the Netherlands Institute for Media Art--it's free with your museum card and during the Stedelijk hiatus provides the one of the only contemporary counterpoints to the works of the Dutch Masters which you probably would have exhausted yourself with. The current exhibition there, Into the Unknown, is a hyper-contemporary look at the translation of science through art and science-fiction. Give yourself plenty of time to have a seat and watch t... [more]

Interview with Neïl Beloufa
by Andrew Berardini
2009-08-23

Los Angeles, Aug. 2009 - I hate superlatives. But at twenty-four-years old, French-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa has made with his work, Kempinski, 2007, likely one of the best pieces of video art I may have ever seen. Dubious superlatives asides, his work has circled both the film festival circuit and gallery exhibitions collecting dozens of awards and vociferous praise. Working in the contradictory genre of “ethnological sci-fi documentary,” the video portrays a series of Malian men simply... [more]