Artist: Latifa Echakhch
Exhibition title: Several Times
Venue: Dvir Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Date: September 5 – October 19, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery
Dvir Gallery is pleased to present ‘Several Times’, Latifa Echakhch’s fifth solo exhibition, the first in our Brussels’ space.
In this new exhibition, Latifa Echakhch thinks objects like traces of gestures, of past moments. ‘Several Times’ is constructed as a memory which changes slightly while time passes. Details which are precise, others are repeated, some fade, others parasitize. It is the memory of several similar scenes, mixing together, several times the same, sometimes different.
Like a cartography on the ground, intimate territories are drawn on carpets, isolated islets becoming scenes of past events. Elements are arranged like objects on a pedestal. They are partially covered with ink. Only one area remains intact with its original colors, a bit like an area lit in a black room, a spot of light on a stage.
Latifa Echakhch’s method, recalling the techniques of Giordano Bruno’s Ars Memoriae, a technique consisting of building links between objects, characters and architecture in order to accurately recall a whole scene, is almost cinematographic. The spaces on the carpets are like screens. The illuminated areas (non-tinted with ink) seem to move over the carpet as the movement of a projector on a movie screen.
Winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013 and the Zurich Art Prize in 2015, Latifa Echakhch has recently presented her work at Kunsthalle Mainz (2019), at Wanås Konst’s sculpture park, Knislinge, Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2019), Museum Boijmans, Rotterman (2018), KIOSK, Ghent (2018), Villa Sauber – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2018) and also at the 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017), Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2016), Swiss Institute, New York (2015), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014 – 2015), Palazzo Grassi, Venise (2014), Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (2013) and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013) . The first major exhibition in Belgium of Latifa Echakhch will open at BPS22 in Charleroi on February 1st, 2020.
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several Times, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, you’re so cool, 2019, wool carpet, ink, Sonos loudspeaker, Jonathan Bree ‘Sleepwalking’ vinyl record, Parisienne yellow cigarette pack, two wine glasses, iPhone, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, love don’t be shy, 2019, wool carpet, ink, white Paul Smith shirt, fragance bottle ‘Love don’t be shy’ by Kilian – edition 2019, New Balance RC1400v5 shoes, Stuart A. Staples ‘Friday night’ vinyl record, Parisienne cigarette pack, two wine glasses, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, afilib, 2019, wool carpet, ink, tee-shirt, Robert Wyatt ‘Rock Bottom’ vinyl record, Salomon hydratation backpack, Parisienne cigarette pack, NIVEA deodorant, HP speaker, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, huile prodigieuse, 2019, wool carpet, ink, tee-shirt, Bang & Olufsen P2 speaker, two bottles of Original Tonic Citrus, Paul Smith shirt, NUXE ‘Huile prodigieuse’ spray bottle, NIVEA deodorant, power bank charger, iPhone, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, fever tree, 2019, wool carpet, ink, tee-shirt, Bang & Olufsen P2 speaker, ‘Samedi’ festival bracelet, two bottles of ginger beer Fever Tree, CBD package, copper cup, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, Several times, golden hours, 2019, wool carpet, ink, Salomon soft flask, tee-shirt, power bank, Noax Orae pocket ashtray, Parisienne blue cigarette pack, Brian Eno ‘Another green world’ vinyl record, charger, ‘Samedi’ festival bracelet, 240 x 160 cm
