Hamza Halloubi
31 Jan - 07 Mar 2015
HAMZA HALLOUBI
Apparitions à Soco Chico
31 January ‐ 7 March 2015
Hamza Halloubi’s (Morocco, 1982) poetic video works manoeuvre between documentary and fiction. Guided by the artist‐author’s voice, all of his works maintain a philosophical aspect that refers both to theoretical knowledge and to personal memories. Halloubi’s film ‘Apparitions à Soco Chico’, presented in the attachment space at AKINCI, subverts the language of cinema to make the filmmaker’s creative process itself the subject of his work.
‘Apparitions à Soco Chico’ is an editing of different sequences shot by a friend of the artist during a day in Tangier. The pictures depict daily life in the Soco Chico (a historic neighbourhood in the city which was also filmed by the Lumière brothers). From those insignificant images, the artist created a narrative with excerpts of texts by writers and journalists of the 20th century who wrote about their fascination and atonement for the first films in the history of cinema. The film questions the perception of images nowa‐ days, also in relation to the history of cinema and the multiplication of filmed images. The documentary images of the life in Soco Chico end with the almost phantomic appearance of the actress Tilda Swinton in the film.
Hamza Halloubi (Morocco, 1982) studied at the HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium be‐ tween 2012‐14 after receiving his Master in Visual Arts at ENSAV la Cambre, Brussels (2004‐2010). This year he started his residency period at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2015/2016).
Hamza Halloubi has had solo shows at KIOSK, Gent, Belgium (2014), c‐o‐m‐p‐o‐s‐i‐t‐e, Brussels, Belgium (2014), BOZAR Palais des Beaux‐Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2013), Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Bel‐ gium (2012), Hamza Halloubi participated at the Marrakech Biannale, SIGNAL Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (2014), Morocco (2014), Portrait of the Artist, Works and References, curated by Katerina Gregos, HISK, Gent, Belgium (2013), Watou Kunstenfestival (2012), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012).
Upcoming: solo show at Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherland (2015) and participation at the 5rd Thessa‐ loniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Apparitions à Soco Chico
31 January ‐ 7 March 2015
Hamza Halloubi’s (Morocco, 1982) poetic video works manoeuvre between documentary and fiction. Guided by the artist‐author’s voice, all of his works maintain a philosophical aspect that refers both to theoretical knowledge and to personal memories. Halloubi’s film ‘Apparitions à Soco Chico’, presented in the attachment space at AKINCI, subverts the language of cinema to make the filmmaker’s creative process itself the subject of his work.
‘Apparitions à Soco Chico’ is an editing of different sequences shot by a friend of the artist during a day in Tangier. The pictures depict daily life in the Soco Chico (a historic neighbourhood in the city which was also filmed by the Lumière brothers). From those insignificant images, the artist created a narrative with excerpts of texts by writers and journalists of the 20th century who wrote about their fascination and atonement for the first films in the history of cinema. The film questions the perception of images nowa‐ days, also in relation to the history of cinema and the multiplication of filmed images. The documentary images of the life in Soco Chico end with the almost phantomic appearance of the actress Tilda Swinton in the film.
Hamza Halloubi (Morocco, 1982) studied at the HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium be‐ tween 2012‐14 after receiving his Master in Visual Arts at ENSAV la Cambre, Brussels (2004‐2010). This year he started his residency period at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2015/2016).
Hamza Halloubi has had solo shows at KIOSK, Gent, Belgium (2014), c‐o‐m‐p‐o‐s‐i‐t‐e, Brussels, Belgium (2014), BOZAR Palais des Beaux‐Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2013), Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Bel‐ gium (2012), Hamza Halloubi participated at the Marrakech Biannale, SIGNAL Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (2014), Morocco (2014), Portrait of the Artist, Works and References, curated by Katerina Gregos, HISK, Gent, Belgium (2013), Watou Kunstenfestival (2012), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012).
Upcoming: solo show at Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherland (2015) and participation at the 5rd Thessa‐ loniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece.