Mounir Fatmi

Mounir Fatmi (b. 1970, Tangier) works across installation, video, drawing, sculpture, and printed matter. His practice is built around the circulation of language, belief, ideology, and media — and the systems through which these forces are transmitted, distorted, and contested.

Fatmi’s Connections series, begun in the early 2000s, places religious texts, philosophical books, political writing, and fiction in direct physical contact through electrical cables and crocodile clips. The books are wired together into an unstable network: knowledge as live current, reading as potential circuit, the library as a site of tension rather than resolution. The Quran, the Bible, Bataille, Fanon, and others appear not as authorities but as charged objects, capable of conducting or short-circuiting meaning.

His work has been exhibited widely across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and North America, and engages consistently with questions of censorship, translation, postcolonial identity, and the politics of representation.

Items here include exhibition posters, announcements, and printed ephemera from Fatmi’s exhibitions and projects.

  • Exhibition poster, Mounir Fatmi, Comprendra bien qui comprendra le dernier, Le Parvis, centre d’art contemporain, Ibos/Pau, 2004. Offset lithograph, 40 × 60 cm unfolded. Recto: colour photograph of books including Quran, Georges Bataille’s L’Érotisme, and New Testament in multiple languages, connected by multicoloured electrical crocodile-clip cables. Text: ‘mounir fatmi’ upper left; ‘comprendra bien qui comprendra le dernier’ in white on black band across centre. Exhibition poster reverse, Mounir Fatmi, Comprendra bien qui comprendra le dernier, Le Parvis, Ibos/Pau, 2004. Verso: white ground, black sans-serif type. Text: Le Parvis centre d’art contemporain; exhibition dates 24 juin – 24 septembre 2004; vernissage 24 juin; video programme Survival signs, œuvres vidéo 1990–2004. Good used condition with original folds.

    Mounir Fatmi — Comprendra bien qui comprendra le dernier, 2004

    Mounir Fatmi — Comprendra bien qui comprendra le dernier, 2004