Hamishi Farah. Devant la douleur des autres.
Curators : Fanny Gonella, directrice du Frac Lorraine, en coopération avec Sophie Potelon, coordinatrice de la programmation
For his first exhibition in France, Australian artist Hamishi Farah explores the enduring influence of Christian history and imagery. Presenting works ranging from landscape painting to portraits, alongside religious sculptures from the collections of the Musée de la Cour d'Or in Metz, the artist examines a genealogy that links morality, power, and punishment.
Throughout his career, Hamishi Farah has developed a reflection on the genre of portraiture that is reflected in his paintings of objects, people, and landscapes. At 49 Nord 6 Est, he focused on the difference in treatment (visual or social) between, on the one hand, the testimony of suffering giving rise to punishment and, on the other, a staging of suffering that elevates it, sometimes by eroticizing it, to a desirable experience.
Drawing on visual conventions inspired by biblical texts, this self-taught artist has focused in particular on the figure of the witness. This is embodied in a painting series of salt pillars near the Dead Sea, called “Loth's wife”—a biblical character turned into a pillar of salt for looking back to see the destruction of her city, Sodom, from which she was running away with her family. Hamishi Farah indirectly highlights how, by giving human faces to natural forms, a resonance is established between culture and nature, which has the effect of inscribing a story within the latter—in this case, divine punishment.
With this exhibition, the Frac Lorraine continues its exploration of artistic genealogies and their role in consolidating or destabilizing established value systems.
Location : 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine
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