Lydia Ourahmane (1992, Saïda, Algeria) lives and works between Algiers and Barcelona. The exhibition is curated by Ludovic Delalande and Claudia Buizza. Invited by Lydia Ourahmane, musicians felicita, Yawning Portal, and Sega Bodega will perform at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, on Friday 7 October 2022. The film will be presented at these institutions throughout 20. Commissioning support is provided by the VIA Art Fund.
Tassili is made possible by the Valeria Napoleone XX SculptureCenter (VNXXSC). "Lydia Ourahmane, Tassili" 2022 is commissioned and produced by SculptureCenter, New York Rhizome, Algiers Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisia Mercer Union, Toronto and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. The film also incorporates digital animations made from photogrammetry scans, taken on site in collaboration with the artist Yuma Burgess.īetween fiction and reality, the film Tassili offers a hallucinatory experience, an original quest with mystical overtones that propels us into a visual and sonic journey beyond time. She commissioned four musicians - Nicolás Jaar, felicita, Yawning Portal, and Sega Bodega – to each create, separately, a soundtrack.
The artist invites the viewer to immerse themselves, while simultaneously being guided. To shoot the film, Lydia Ourahmane embarked on a 13 day journey with a team of collaborators, including friends and local guides. They explored the vast arid plateau that is difficult to access due to the hostile conditions as well as military and governmental restrictions. The night and day images of this lunar landscape and its millennia-old paintings shot in 4K, a digital technology qualified as ultra-high definition, are striking in their hyperrealism-questioning the potential for this vertiginous, hypnotic wandering to capture an encounter with a place filled with history and spirituality. The exhibition marks the first presentation of Lydia Ourahmane's works in France. Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this exceptional mountainous region of the central Sahara Desert extends across 72,000 km²/ 27,799 mi² and is filled with thousands of rock engravings and cave paintings that bear witness to humans, animals, and vegetation that thrived, evolved, and disappeared in the area before climate change transformed it into a desert.
As part of its Open Space programme, the Fondation Louis Vuitton presents Lydia Ourahmane's Tassili (2022), a film shot in Tassili n’Ajjer.
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