Curatorial

L’Atelier - Group show

15 -17 July 2022

The studio is an imagined and imaginative space that takes many forms. It can extend from a table in the back of a room to a hangar of several square meters. It doesn’t matter much what shape it takes, but its definition according to each artist is fundamental. Each one defines appropriates, inhabits, and lives it in a singular way.

It is the space of tests, experimentation, contemplation, fragility, and frustration. The studio has hosted numerous artists, it is above all a social space through which you meet artists and lead you to other studios and discoveries. It is indeed a space capable of weaving a social link with the scene, anchored in a neighborhood with a very particular handicraft vocation. This exhibition is an open space that stems from the traces of brushes, which overflow on the canvas, capable of telling how many layers and the mixture of colors that each artist have mixed.

The patterns that are imprinted in the visual memory and reflected in the color in an insitu intervention. This studio space has seen the passage of several people with several mediums.

What if they were to find themselves in a common temporality?

What if they found themselves in a shared, common place, where usually the practice is individual ?

Will they weave in between their expressions, to find themselves in the mirror of the other, or to question the limit of this space?

It embodies the sketches or the premises of a new artistic statement that had an impact on the artistic approach, to the body of work in the journey of an artist.

As a break, a step forward or a step of change; reflected through the layered works.

From sketchs, drawing, painting, installation, video works, and work in progress, L’atelier is the embracing boat to all these plural expressions. It will be in dialogue between artists who have already started their career journey and young ones who have enhanced theirs. This exhibition is an attempt to give space and reflect an emerging scene. It is essentially about the studio, the artistic process and the approaches that come within. It’s an extension of the state of the budding art scene.

Salma Kossemtini, L’atelier Selma Feriani Gallery Tunis, July 2022