Omar Mahfoudi

Untitled #4 (from Les Baigneurs series), 2021

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Acrylic and ink on canvas

CM H 50 W 50

IN H 19.69 W 19.69

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Omar Mahfoudi

“My name is Omar Mahfoudi. Born in Tangier (Morocco) in 1981. I have been drawing, filming and photographing the contradictions of my native country and of the contemporary world for 20 years. I started drawing before learning how to write. It came to me naturally and enabled me to explore other images and drawings than those of the Moroccan society or of orientalist visions. I had the chance to have a middle-school professor who encouraged me in the pursuit of my practice. Starting from this moment, I got interested in art history. Through paintings, photographs and videos, I attempt to reinvent and rewrite human kind’s history through emotions, because I come from a culture where figurative art is prohibited. Also, in my culture, eroticism is limited to a hypocrite small part of life, though it deems that sensuality is of great importance. I question bodies and sexuality in daily life through eroticism proper to painting. My view is a result of fifteen years of reflection that I assimilated. Since 2016, my view of the word is influenced by the political and humanistic problematics, thus, giving my work a new momentum.

My work for the animated pictorial film, an experimental video, testifies of my freedom of expression and my dissatisfied vision of the multiple paradoxes of the contemporary society. I try to create images that are moving with their vital breath. Concerning paintings and the performances of live-painting, gesture and action of painting are very strong and take poetical and political dimensions. I made a demonstration in 2017, at the museum of Qua...

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