curated by 2024 – The Language of Chimeras

La Langue des Chimères
The Language of Chimeras

Opening days: 13th and 14th of September 2024 12 -7 pm
Duration: September 17th – October 19th, 2024

Curator: Mohamed Bourouissa
Artists: Mohamed Bourouissa, Leonora Carrington, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Wifredo Lam.

In collaboration with Sébastien Delot.

Studio team: Sophie-Charlotte Holmlund and Margot Nguyen.

With special thanks to Anne Barrault, Kristina Bosak & Krinzinger Gallery, Valeria Diaz Granada, Dorota Dolega-Ritter, Eskil Lam and to the artists, their galleries, and their teams.
For the exhibition at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna, curator Mohamed Bourouissa proposes an unexpected approach to sharing stories. Is it possible to capture infinity in an outline? Does this exhibition, entitled The Language of Chimeras, allow him to articulate a vision based on new values or new chimeras?

The juxtaposition of the artists Wifredo Lam, Mohamed Bourouissa, Leonora Carrington and Neïla Czemak Ichti allows us to grasp the notion of global instability. How can we fail to see that these new connections produce a reversal of meaning?

Mohamed Bourouissa declares that his decision to handwrite Aimé Césaire’s poem on the gallery walls in order to accompany Lam’s drawings reveals the importance of the concept of language. It is a way of entering into communion and complicity with the artist and the poet.

For a poet represents, above all, human nature in its purest form. Deeply rooted in language, poets transcend human nature. Mohamed Bourouissa has always been part of the here and now. He is a person of the eternal present. He is both a stranger and a native of the same land and the same language as the artists mentioned above. For him, art is, in a certain form, a mother tongue.