In this eighth year of collaboration with ENSBA Lyon - E\u0301cole Nationale\u00a0Supe\u0301rieure\u00a0des\u00a0Beaux-Arts, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hosts the first Italian solo exhibition of Tarek Lakhrissi, participant artist in the 2020 Post-Dipl\u00f4me promoted by ENSBA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Doesn\u2019t Belong to Me\u201d presents a cycle of newly commissioned works the artist conceived specifically for the spaces of Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene (CN). The exhibition explores the concept of self-defence, interpreted as a practice of resistance developed by different social groups and subaltern bodies in order to survive. The image at the core of this cycle of artworks is that of the salamander: since Medieval bestiaries, this amphibian is said to be endowed with venom and able to survive among flames. In the show, the salamander becomes a symbol for counterpower, of both a political and sexual nature, which in performing self-defence rewrites the rules of conflict and connection. Autotomy<\/em> \u2013 or the self-amputation of non-vital body parts, practiced by certain animals as a diversion for their predators \u2013 becomes the defensive tactic identified by Lakhrissi to imagine new strategies of urban guerrilla. The exhibition is realised with the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, French-Italian Foundation devoted to supporting contemporary creations.<\/p>\n Tarek Lakhrissi (1992,\u00a0Ch\u00e2tellerault, FR)\u00a0is a visual artist, poet and writer based in Paris. In his practice he investigates and challenges language and reflects upon the codification of affects through fiction\u00a0and worldmaking. His works have been exhibited\u00a0internationally: 22nd Biennale of Sydney;\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Art of Sydney (2020), Auto Italia South East; London (2019), Hayward Gallery; London (2019), Grand Palais - FIAC; Parigi (2019), Fondazione Gulbenkian; Parigi (2018), Lafayette Anticipations; Parigi (2019), La Galerie; Noisy-Le-Sec, Francia (2019), La Gait\u00e9 Lyrique; Paris (2018), CRAC Alsazia; Altkirch, Francia (2019), Artexte ; Montreal, Canada (2017), SMC\/CAC; Vilnius (2017), Kim?\u00a0;\u00a0Riga (2018), Wendy's Subway; Brooklyn (2017), Zawya; Il Cairo (2019), Espace Arlaud; Losanna (2019), Zabriskie; Ginevra (2019).\u00a0He is nominated for the 22nd\u00a0Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize (2020-2021)<\/p>\n Photo: MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 55r. Salamanders, in flames., Francia, | Photo: \u00a9 Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this eighth year of collaboration with ENSBA Lyon - E\u0301cole Nationale\u00a0Supe\u0301rieure\u00a0des\u00a0Beaux-Arts, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hosts the first Italian solo exhibition of Tarek Lakhrissi, participant artist in the 2020 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29380,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Tarek Lakhrissi. This Doesn\u2019t Belong to Me","_seopress_titles_desc":"Curated by Bernardo Follini | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo","_seopress_robots_index":"","show_footer_widget":true,"show_related_exhibition":true,"related_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"mostre":[210],"m_author":[305],"m_venue":[306],"class_list":["post-29355","mostre","type-mostre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mostre-210","m_author-bernardo-follini","m_venue-palazzo-re-rebaudengo-guarene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostre\/29355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostre"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mostre"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostre\/29355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44213,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostre\/29355\/revisions\/44213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mostre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostre?post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"m_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/m_author?post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"m_venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsrr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/m_venue?post=29355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe exhibition path of \u201cThis Doesn\u2019t Belong to Me\u201d begins with a ceiling installation composed of silver chainlets \u2013 talismans for protection in everyday life, which are also reminiscent of the instruments of pleasure employed in BDSM practices. The following room portrays a deferred scene, in which the conflict or intercourse has already taken place. The space is populated by a group of five sculptures in the shape of grotesque, out-of-scale salamander tails, which create a dream-like scenery evocatively dominated by the element of fire. The environment suggests a tension between visibility and absence, where the body is assumed as a platform continuously under construction and deconstruction, rather than an inalienable identity structure. In Lakhrissi\u2019s representation, self-defence is a process of disidentification, the \u201cstrategy for survival and subversion\u201d mentioned by Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz. But more than that, it is a counteroffensive action, similar to the one described by Elsa Dorlin in her Se d\u00e9fendre: une philosophie de la violence <\/em>[Self-defence: A philosophy of violence] (2018): \u201ca different semiology of the militant body, which doesn\u2019t rely on the exemplary nature of its own martyrdom, but rather on the relentless and inevitable nature of its revenge \u2013 that doesn\u2019t belong to the metaphysics of purposes, but rather to the immediacy of a strike\u201d.<\/p>\n