Mehi-Georges Lahlou. © Antoine Muller.
Lahlou Mehdi-Georges
Born in 1983
Lives & works in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Casablanca
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Awards; 1st Annual Artistic Landmarks In Contemporary Experience (BE) - 2012
Collected by museums and foundations
Presentation of the artist
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (b. 1983) is a contemporary multimedia artist who works in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Casablanca.
"When we look at the whole of Mehdi-Georges Lahlou's work to date, three main constants, among others, emerge: one concerns his relationship to the body, the other his relationship to space. We can even say that quite often, the two are intertwined. His relationship to the body is obviously not foreign to his initial training as a dancer, that to space to his work as a "sculptor", probably the most appropriate term to talk about his artistic approach, even if photography - and here we touch on the third point: the question of memory - is never absent either.
Body, space, memory, therefore, form a kind of trilogy in which at least two of the components are found in each of the performances, sculptures or images produced by the artist. All of them contribute, each in their own way, to a misleading evocation of cultural references, religious convictions or social attributes. For him, it is a question of revisiting all of them in the alder of critical practices and the different processes characteristic of contemporary art, in one of its functions which consists in perpetually questioning certain taboos and other convictions of our societies, whether they are of a moral, religious, philosophical, political, social, cultural or aesthetic nature."
Text translated and extract from Bernard Marcelis' text titled ‘Des dispositifs d’une pensée hybride’).
Nationality : France / Morocco
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Born in Les Sables d'Olonne, France
Education
2014
Les Réalisateurs – Art and Business, Post-graduate, Nantes (France)
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2010
PhD in Fine Arts, St. Joost Academy, Breda (Netherlands)
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2007
DNSEP, Ecole Régionale de Nantes Métropole, Nantes (France) Master multimedia, cultural mediation and administration of heritage, Angers University (France)
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2005
DNAP, honors, Ecole Régionale de Nantes Métropole, Nantes (France)
Solo exhibitions & presentations
2019
75 (Installation/Performance), MNAC – Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest (Romania)
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2019
Under the Sand, the Sun, Galerie Transit, Mechelen (Belgium)
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2019
72 (Virgins) in Motion and Aria, Museo de Arte Colonial, La Havana (Cuba)
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2017
Of the Confused Memory, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (France)
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2017
Behind the Garden, Botanique Museum, Brussels (Belgium) Curated by Simon Njami
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2016
Dans mes rêves, mes cendres, TheArtSpace, Düsseldorf (Germany)
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2016
AQAF, Galerie Verbeeck – Van Dyck het Antwerp (Belgium)
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2016
And Even If Nothing Takes Root in this Oasis, Galerie Transit, Mechelen (Belgium)
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2015
I Did Not Have To Cross the Sea, Merton D, Simpson Gallery, New York (USA)
Residencies
2019
Centre dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, Rouen (France)
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2019
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (Nederlands)
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2018
Centre dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, Rouen (France)
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2017
Centre dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, Rouen (France)
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2015
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Belgium)
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2014
Catherine Ahnell Gallery, New York (USA)
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Group exhibitions & fairs
2019
The Gulf Between, CC De Warande, Turnhout (Belgium)
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2019
SORCIÈRE, H2M – espace d’art contemporain Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
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2019
VOILÉ.E.S DÉVOILÉ.E.S, Monastère royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
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2018
I is an Other/Be the Other, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (Italy)
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2018
L’Heure rouge, Dak’art 2018, Dakar Biennale (Senegal)
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2018
RÉSONANCE, Le Frac révèle ses dernières acquisitions, Musée des Beaux-Art, Rouen (France)
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2018
Décoloniser les corps, Biennale art nOmad, Arnac-la-Poste, Bourges, Paris, Calais (France), Bruxelles (Belgium), Berlin (Germany)
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2018
Jaou Tunis 2018 : Pavillon « Feu », Imprimerie Cérès, Tunis (Tunisia)
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2017
Art[ ]Collector, La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels (Belgium)
Events
Press & media
Presse
2014
Le Maroc Contemporain, Beaux-Arts magazine, October 2014 (France)
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2014
Diptyk n°24, June-September 2014 (Morocco)
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2014
Le corps découvert, Connaissance des Arts (special edition) (France)
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2014
Diptyk n°24, October-November 2014 (Morocco)
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2015
La langue des signes, Têtu, 03/2015 (France)
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2015
Portfolio Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, ESSE N° 83 (Canada)
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2015
Art Brussels 2015, Beaux-Arts magazine, April 2015 (France)
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Publications & essays
2015
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (BE), Édition la Muette (BE)
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2012
Les Talons d’Allah, texts by Marie Moignard, Pierre Giquel and Émilie Bouvard, éditions Centre Sagamie, Québec (Canada)
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2012
Paradis incertain, text by Abdelkader Damani, Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels (Belgium)
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2012
Walking to Lahloutopia, text by Christine Vuegen, Maison d’Arts Actuels des Chartreux, Brussels (Belgium)
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2011
Monographies d’artistes Art 10+1, texts by Colette Dubois, Pierre Giquel and Christine Vuegen, la Médiatine, Brussels (Belgium)
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2010
Éditions postales, text by Pierre Giquel, 2010