GROUP EXHIBITION 2024
DISLOCATIONS
The exhibition “Dislocations” brings together fifteen artists from different generations and backgrounds (Afghanistan, France, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria, Ukraine), whose work is marked or shaped by the experience of exile, the rupture between here and elsewhere, between past and present.
Their practices blend ancestral craftsmanship with contemporary technologies, humble gestures with modest materials. The exhibition pays tribute to the vital necessity and emotional intensity of artistic creation through fragmented narratives that intertwine displacement, imprisonment, war — but also resilience and healing.
INTERVIEW WITH
ALI ARKADY
Ali Arkady is an artist and photojournalist who has documented conflicts in Iraq, particularly in Fallujah and Mosul. In 2016, he spent several months with Iraqi forces, witnessing the abuses and violence of the war against the Islamic State. In his interview, he discusses the origins of his work “Mosul”, a stone monolithography that reflects the lives shattered by these conflicts while highlighting the hope and resilience of displaced families.
At a time when international geopolitical news resembles a palimpsest of crises across time and space, artists can emerge as watchful sentinels, attuned to the tremors of the world and the shifting movements of society—like seismic waves.
To be a sentinel is to bear witness to one’s era, to unleash the power of imagination by exploring the social and political realities of the past, the present, and the future.
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This project is part of a collaboration between the Palais de Tokyo and the association Portes ouvertes sur l’art, which supports artists in exile, driven by a spirit of openness and exploration. Its aim is to promote and share the work of these artists in partnership with the art world, leading to exhibitions and events in various venues across France.
A first invitation from the Palais de Tokyo in 2022 made it possible to present the screening program “The Inner Friend”.
Text By Palais De Tokyo