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19 novembre 2013
- doi: 10.58079/pxbh
Bulletin électronique de l'Institut d'étude de l'islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (ISMM)
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Mounir Fatmi, Impossible Union, 2011 In his visual works, the Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi frequently uses Arabic calligraphy, or characters with both aesthetic and semantic content. For his sculptures he uses an old Hebrew typewriter, which, rather than producing typed lettering on paper, creates metallic Arabic characters. With this subtle linkage of “linguistic incongruities” he alludes both to the multi-layered fabric of relations between the Jewish and Arabic world and to socio-cultural...