Kader Attia: Transformations

" A French artist of Algerian descent, Kader Attia directs his gaze toward theAfrican continent, engaging in specters of colonialism in the footsteps ofBrazilian poet Oswald de Andrade and activist Franz Fanon. This catalog drawsfrom the artist s recent exhibitionRepair5 Acts, an installation of what hecalls reappropriated materials across culture, politics, science, nature and thenotion of repair in continuity. Spanning installation, sculpture and photography,Attia s recent work includes an army of crouching figures whose identitiesdissolve under silvery rescue blankets often used to aid refugees in distress.In addition, the publication presents work from 2008 to 2013 and writingsfrom the artist and French anthropologist Marc Auge, tying together Attia scentral interest in identity with the endless exchange between European andnon-European cultures. The artist is the recipient of the Cairo Biennial Prize(2008) and was recently featured in dOCUMENTA XIII." pp. 224; COL; hardcover, as new.…