Youssef Nabil De rêver encore
Offentliggjort af Musée d'Orsay
- From tirsdag, maj 19 to søndag, september 13
- 11.30-20.00
- Musée d'Orsay Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, Frankrig
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Born in 1972, French-Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil has been developing a distinctive visual language since the 1990s: hand-coloured black-and-white silver prints that evoke an imagined Egypt and memories of cinema. At the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, “De rêver encore” places his images alongside works he discovered on his first visit to the museum in 1992. From Puvis de Chavannes’s The Dream to the Symbolist sensibility of Odilon Redon, Nabil brings his vision into dialogue with Orientalism, reinterpreting it through pared-back settings, translucent blues and whites, and warm colours tinged with nostalgia. His faceless self-portraits, seen from behind, explore exile, dreams and a Mediterranean world without borders.
The exhibition traces the journey of a contemporary artist, echoed in a selection of 19th-century photographs associated with expeditions to Egypt that highlights the distinction between local image-making and the Orientalist gaze. Guiding figures, identities spanning East and West, and a love of cinema shape the exhibition, culminating in two video projections. It is a visual narrative that favours dreams, memory and fiction as spaces of passage.
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Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, Frankrig