The jury has finally chosen the ten notebooks that will be exhibited on public display on myDetour Berlin. The first one is the one considered the best of all by the jury, and its author will be invited to Berlin to attend inauguration of the Detour exhibition there.
Marie Compagnon
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Sketchbook - pocket
Bili Bidjocka, was born in Douala, Cameroon, now works in Paris, Brussels and New York. He is widely exhibited, making his work on the road, turning the debris of urban living and its excesses into art. He participate the Venice Biennale where he was the author of the ongoing project L'ecriture infinie. His work deals with issues of nationality, indeterminacy and identity, always informed by religious practices and rites from his birthplace. Some objects and ideas are collected on the streets to make a tribute to the hypocritical veneer over our indebtedness to the personal services industry, while on the other hand, investigating the underscoring insidiousness of the language of the industry. His installation pieces are meant to be methaphors for loss, absence, ravishment, and renewal. Quoting Okwui Enwezor, who selected him in the past Biennale of Johannesburg "They are reminders of the silence, the only left-over after the aggressive cleansing of the memories of migrants. On one side there are metaphors of loss and absence, filled with emptiness. On the other side are traces of ecstasy en longing."
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Simon Njami is an independent lecturer and art critic, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue Noire. He is also a consultant in visual arts for the Association Française d'Action Artistique. His extensive publications include essays in the catalogue for the Sydney Biennale and contributions to a wide range of other exhibition catalogues. Njami has been the artistic director of the Bamako photography biennale since 2001, and was curator of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including Africa Remix, which is touring the world. He is the curator of the current Johannesburg Biennale. More.
View Simon Njami's notebook
Learn more about Detour Exhibitions.
View the First Annual Moleskinerie Exhibit.Discover and join our Moleskine communities on LiveJournal, MySpace, Moleskinerie FLICKR, FACEBOOK and Meal Moles. Get
out - have a life and write about it. We'll see you on
Monday.
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