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    Fuck Architects: Chapter 1
    Fuck Architects: Chapter 1
    Fuck Architects: Chapter 1
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    Fuck Architects: Chapter 1

    By Mounir Fatmi

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    "Lombard-Freid Projects is pleased to present Fuck Architects: Chapter 1, mounir fatmi's premier solo exhibition in New York. "My father has lost all his teeth, now I can bite him." It was with this phrase and a series of horse jumps, that mounir fatmi physically blocked the entryway to the Africa Remix exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris in 2005. The public was forced to pass through the bars of the sculpture in order to reach the exhibition. For the viewer, the problem was no longer how to see an artwork, but how to leave it. Thus one begins to understand that despite its aesthetic side, the work of mounir fatmi often functions like a trap. For his debut show at the gallery, fatmi presents several new works under the title, Fuck Architects: Chapter 1. This project functions as a book comprised of three chapters with NY as its inaugural site. The second installment will be shown in the exhibition Le Creux de l'Enfer at the Center of Contemporary Art in Thiers (France) and the third and final chapter will be exhibited in the 2008 Havana Biennial (Cuba)."

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    PublisherMounir Fatmi
    Release dateNov 2, 2021
    Fuck Architects: Chapter 1
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    Mounir Fatmi

    mounir fatmi is a visual artist born in Tangier, Morocco in 1970. He constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious objects, deconstruction, and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He questions the world and plays with its codes and precepts under the prism of architecture, language and the machine. He is particularly interested in the idea of the role of the artist in a society in crisis. mounir fatmi's work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by convention. He brings to light our doubts, fears and desires.He has published several books and art catalogs including: The Kissing Precise, with Régis Durand, La Muette edition, Brussels, 2013, Suspect Language, with Lillian Davies, Skira edition, Italy, 2012, This is not blasphemy, in collaboration with Ariel Kyrou, Inculte-Dernier Marge & Actes Sud edition, 2015, History is not Mine, SF Publishing, Paris, 2015, and Survival Signs, SF Publishing, Paris, 2017. He has also participated in the collective book, Letter to a young Moroccan, edition Seuil, Paris, 2009.He has participated in several solo and collective exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world including: Mamco, Geneva, The Picasso Museum, Vallauris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, N.B.K., Berlin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, MAXXI, Rome, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, the Hayward Gallery, London, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.His installations have been selected in biennials such as the 52nd and the 57th Venice Biennial, the 8th biennial of Sharjah, the 5th Dakar Biennial, the 2nd Seville Biennial, the 5th Gwangju Biennial and the 10th Lyon Biennial, the 5th Auckland Triennial, Fotofest 2014, Houston, the 10th and 11th Bamako Encounters, as well as the 7th Biennale of Architecture in Shenzhen.mounir fatmi was awarded several prizes such as the Cairo Biennial Prize in 2010, the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam, the Grand Prize Leopold Sedar Senghor of the 7th Dakar Biennial in 2006 as well and he was shortlisted for the Jameel Prize of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in 2013.

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      Fuck Architects - Mounir Fatmi

      FUCK ARCHITECTS

      Chapter 1

      mounir fatmi

      Fuck Architects: Chapter 1

      mounir fatmi

      This publication was made on the occasion of the solo exhibition Fuck Architects: Chapter 1 at the Lombard-Fried Projects in New York, by moroccan artist mounir fatmi, from October 19th to November 24th, 2007.

      © 2020 mounir fatmi

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency.

      Published by: mounir fatmi

      Cover Design: Studio Fatmi

      Cover Photography: mounir fatmi

      Table of Contents

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      Lombard-Freid Projects is pleased to present Fuck Architects: Chapter 1, mounir fatmi's premier solo exhibition in New York.

      My father has lost all his teeth, now I can bite him. It was with this phrase and a series of horse jumps, that mounir fatmi physically blocked the

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