Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor

Exhibition

"The Future of Décor" is a challenging solo exhibition by Algerian/French artist Adel Abdessemed featuring a newly commissioned video work, photography and sculpture.

8:00-8:00pm
8:00-8:00pm
Remains of a plane

Curator: Charles Reeve

Exhibition Information/Summary: 

28. The artworks discuss violence, culture, and societal norms, probing the awkward gap between what we believe to be good and what we know to be true. 

Publication:

Adel Abdessemed PDF

Public Program Events (list with description if needed):

  • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 8:00 p.m. 
    • Artist’s Talk with Adel Abdessemed. OCAD University Auditorium. 
  • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 6:30 p.m. 
    • Exhibition Tour with Curator Charles Reeve
  • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 7:00 p.m. in Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario. 
    • Lecture by Philippe-Alain Michaud, curator of film and video at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and author of several books including Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion (Zone Books, 2004). Supported by the French Consulate in Toronto.
  • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 6:30 p.m. OCAD University Auditorium. 
    • Lecture by Susan Buck-Morss in conjunction with the Faculty of Art’s “Art Creates Change” lecture series. Susan Buck-Morss is a Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Government and author of numerous books including The Origin of Negative Dialectics, The Dialectics of Seeing and, most recently, Hegel, Haiti and Universal History.
  • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 
    • Colloquium: Trauma as Cultural Phenomenon.
Remains of a plane
A cowboy hat made of wire

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