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Les voyageurs
2019
Bady DALLOUL
Mixed media
Variable dimensions – 44 x 38 x 5 cm
Ink on bone and resin coins, wooden box
Bady Dalloul's workis influenced by his personal history and the notions of territory, border, and travel. Les voyageurs [The travelers] combines an old game box symbolizing chance, bets, and risk-taking, and coins that are snippets of the history of the Syrian, Palestinian, and Lebanese young men who, at the beginning of the 20th century, left their countries to flee poverty and conscription in the Ottoman Empire. They found themselves tricked while in transit in the French port of Marseilles. Aiming to migrate to Brazil and North America, the French colonial authorities send them to West Africa instead. With this poetic and political evocation of an often glossed-over episode of French history, the artist also draws a parallel between this and the similar odyssey of the young men currently leaving Africa for better opportunities in Europe...
Born in 1986 in Paris, France
A Franco-Syrian artist, Bady Dalloul graduated with honours from the Beaux-Art de Paris in 2015. His work has political, sociological, and historical dimensions, comparing and connecting imagination and reality, questioning the logic of the writing of History. The creation of fictional countries, an obsession of the artist since he was a teenager, is still at the heart of his current work. His artworks have been presented at the MAC/VAL, the Arab World Institute, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and many collectives exhibitions. He was awarded several prizes and his creations are featured in the collection of the MAC/VAL, the Kadist Foundation, the Frac Île-de-France, and the Arab World Institute.
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