Revers

Ismaïl Bahri, Revers, 2017

Revers


Series of 6 videos
HD Video 
16/9 
Color
Stereo
00 : 05 : 00
2017


Produced by Jeu de Paume, Paris


Through the simple, repetitive process of crumpling a page from a magazine, Revers (2016) contemplates notions of disintegration, reproduction, transmutation, and, centrally, impermanence. The video repeats the crumpling and subsequent straightening of the pages, highlighting a ceaseless cycle. As each page is slowly crumpled time and again, the imagery fades, and we are left with the imprint on the artist’s hands—the result of repetitive contact and the residual accumulation of heat and information. 

François Piron

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Ismaïl Bahri, Revers, Exhibition view, Jeu de Paume, 2017
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Ismaïl Bahri, Revers, Video still, 2017