Mounir Fatmi, Evolution or Death (Phoebe)
01 Marine Paintings — With Footnotes, #254

Henry Zaidan
2 min readMar 1, 2020

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Mounir Fatmi, Moroccan, b. 1970
Evolution or Death (Phoebe), 2014

Chromogenic print
53 9/10 × 80 7/10 in, 137 × 205 cm
Private collection

Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with elaborately drawn Islamic poems relaying a peaceful message. Using current events as content for projects, Fatmi investigates the origins of contemporary issues and crises. More on Mounir Fatmi

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