Fayçal Baghriche

The artist‘s role as a collector of narratives and objects is highlighted in his work Souvenir, an illuminated terrestrial globe, which has been fitted with a motor and turns so fast that it is impossible to make out the contours of the continents and the demarcations of the countries.

The artist‘s role as a collector of narratives and objects is highlighted in his work Souvenir, an illuminated terrestrial globe, which has been fitted with a motor and turns so fast that it is impossible to make out the contours of the continents and the demarcations of the countries.

Baghriche sees himself as a collector of narratives and objects. Wenn du ins Feuer guckst is an advertisement taken from the public realm and completely degraded by the sun. The artist is interested in the parallelism of what occurred to the image in the public realm and what the image actually shows.

Akoah also raises the question of how a found object functions in a new context. The figure (h: 93 cm) is the mold of a rescue dummy used in swimming pools for rescue training. Baghriche’s cast is made of the wax, which normally disappears during the process of casting bronze. Seen in a new context and with the wax pipes, which are objects used in the intermediary process of casting, still in place the vacuous expression of the figure opens up a space of new evaluation and interpretation.