Neil Beloufa
25 May - 25 Aug 2013
© Neïl Beloufa
Still from Production Value, 2013
Mixed media installation with single-channel video projection, color, sound.
Dimensions variable. 80:00 min
Courtesy François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and the artist. Produced by Petit Flm, Turtle Cove with the support of the Audi Talent Award.
Still from Production Value, 2013
Mixed media installation with single-channel video projection, color, sound.
Dimensions variable. 80:00 min
Courtesy François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and the artist. Produced by Petit Flm, Turtle Cove with the support of the Audi Talent Award.
NEIL BELOUFA
25 May - 25 August 2013
Neil Beloufa’s films focus on the slippery line between fiction and reality. He sets up situations in which both amateurs and professional actors explore enigmatic subjects ranging from extraterrestrials to nationalism, terrorism, and the future. During his Hammer residency in 2012, Beloufa produced a new film exploring the iconography of the red bandana. Disparate political movements and subcultures—including gangsters, hippies, rock stars, cowboys, and anarchists—have long adopted the red bandana as a sign of affiliation or camaraderie. In his installation, Production Value (2013) Beloufa uses the red bandana as a vehicle in which to examine such subcultures and how these groups interact with each other and wrestle with existential issues when faced with a great catastrophe. Production Value will be screened in an installation designed by the artist in the Hammer’s video gallery. Hammer Projects: Neil Beloufa is organized by Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator.
Biography
French-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa was born in 1985 in Paris. He studied at Les Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris; Les Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Paris; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; Cooper Union, New York; and Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing, France. His work has been shown in contemporary art venues as well as in film festivals around the globe. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2012); the Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2012); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); the New Museum, New York (2011); and the White Box, New York (2008) among others and has been included in numerous group exhibitions. He has participated in several film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada (2011); the International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2012 and 2009); the London Film Festival in London, the United Kingdom (2009, 2010, and 2011) and he received the Grand Prizes at the 54th and 57th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, Germany. Beloufa has won many awards, most recently the Audi Talent Awards, Paris (2011), which partially funded Production Value.
25 May - 25 August 2013
Neil Beloufa’s films focus on the slippery line between fiction and reality. He sets up situations in which both amateurs and professional actors explore enigmatic subjects ranging from extraterrestrials to nationalism, terrorism, and the future. During his Hammer residency in 2012, Beloufa produced a new film exploring the iconography of the red bandana. Disparate political movements and subcultures—including gangsters, hippies, rock stars, cowboys, and anarchists—have long adopted the red bandana as a sign of affiliation or camaraderie. In his installation, Production Value (2013) Beloufa uses the red bandana as a vehicle in which to examine such subcultures and how these groups interact with each other and wrestle with existential issues when faced with a great catastrophe. Production Value will be screened in an installation designed by the artist in the Hammer’s video gallery. Hammer Projects: Neil Beloufa is organized by Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator.
Biography
French-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa was born in 1985 in Paris. He studied at Les Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris; Les Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Paris; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; Cooper Union, New York; and Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing, France. His work has been shown in contemporary art venues as well as in film festivals around the globe. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2012); the Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2012); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); the New Museum, New York (2011); and the White Box, New York (2008) among others and has been included in numerous group exhibitions. He has participated in several film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada (2011); the International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2012 and 2009); the London Film Festival in London, the United Kingdom (2009, 2010, and 2011) and he received the Grand Prizes at the 54th and 57th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, Germany. Beloufa has won many awards, most recently the Audi Talent Awards, Paris (2011), which partially funded Production Value.