Unis sous un nuage

For the exhibition "Unis sous un nuage" (United under a cloud), four artists, from different backgrounds, confront their propositions in a shared reflection on movement, memory and transformation through a selection of recent works focusing on drawing and painting. An intangible space, where the works showcased evoke notions of flow, deconstruction, superimposition and temporality. The artists explore what is visible and what is hidden. They excavate and reinterpret images, symbols and histories, revealing hidden strata in displacements, tensions, personal and historical references.

Mohamed Lekleti goes beyond the limits of canvas and paper with his hybrid works, multiplying associations and oxymorons beyond the visible and the legible while illustrating his consistency for graphic treatment and strong visual symbols. Zoulikha Bouabdellah makes images without making them, revisiting the history of painting and dominant representations, through drawing, writing, ornaments and gestures, she deconstructs the standards and ways of social and cultural representation, inviting us to get out of the frame to build a common edifice. Nasreddine Bennacer impassively tends towards purity and poetry, between gesture and material, revealing memories and impressions, personal or historical references in the form of imprints, memory traces. Katayoun Rouhi, for her part, confronts visible reality and hidden truth in her practice, between painting and poetry, initiating a reflective journey on art, where her poems are the interior, hidden reflection of the painting that is the visible manifestation of it. 

For the exhibition “Unis sous un nuage”, the four artists - Mohamed Lekleti, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Nasreddine Bennacer, and Katayoun Rouhi - together draw a cartography of the world, anchored in their inner and outer journeys, tending towards a world that we compose together, a world as one.