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Mohamed Lekleti. Hors-champ.

Mohamed Lekleti. Hors-champ. : Brisez l’algorithme du monstre qui vous menace. technique mixte sur papier 120x152 cm., 2022   


The exhibition


In his works on paper, which owe as much to his drawing as to a thought of collage, Mohamed Lekleti stretches a thread between two worlds, one imaginary, drinking in the other, real. Also, between two states of consciousness, two states of being, two moments linked together by a thread, a metaphor for the human condition. His chaotic images that we have to reconstitute are certainly split, but interdependent. His characters, head in a cage or face buried in the hands, are elsewhere and yet caught by intrusive thoughts, like an experience that would still haunt, in the form of threatening figures. The background on which they are plastered is familiar - a map of the world, a landscape - and yet the whole scene is dreamlike. It is as if this was the only way to express certain discomforts, and that the visible elements were insufficient to express man's inner tensions between childhood and adulthood, animality and humanity, overflowing impulses and the oppressions of our societies. If Lekleti is a poet in images, he is also a poet in words: the titles of his works are essential reading keys: Dust of exile, Between two infinites you hold us suspended ...

Extract from the article by Emma Noyant published in the N°103 of the magazine Art Absolument. Publication on October 14, 2022.

When


20/10/2022 - 26/11/2022