Fernando Sánchez Castillo
The title [At] Home covers only part of the present exhibition at Nouvelles Images. For instance guest artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo (1970) shows his video Guernica Syndrome, Azor.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Azor was Franco’s yacht. Sánchez bought it and had it demolished to neat parcels of junk.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
The definitive demolition goes on overnight and looks like a faint echo of the demolition of Guernica.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
But it also shows that the trauma of the Franco era is still there in Sánchez’s homeland Spain (and sadly we can still witness it in recent developments there).
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
History, perception and its traumas are also part of Hamid El Kanbouhi’s (1976) great and impressive installation Take a LeaFe,
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
It tries to balance between different cultures, expectations and facts.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen (1956) shows her photo series Destroyed House Gaza, probably the most literal interpretation of the show’s title.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
She shows the destroyed house as a stage of remembrance, its trauma and its re-ordered emptiness.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
In a way they may remind you of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings of the 1980s.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Remembrance and destruction, the more they become traumatic the more they become monumental as well.
Marjan Teeuwen
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
As such Nouvelles Images has made a very coherent and moving show in which the aesthetics of all three artists communicate very well.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Demolition and distortion and us trying to find a way, a place and a reason in them, traumatic as they may seem, have an aesthetics of their own.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Earlier works by El Kanbouhi and Teeuwen are adding to these aesthetics.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
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Content of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag.
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