Adel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an artist. His work is about the big issues of the modern world, be they political, personal, or aesthetic, transposing them into the field of art: he uses drawing and video, sculpture and installations. The materials he uses transmute to create a unique formal experience, always in relation to the world—what he calls an “act.” His work has been exhibited in many prestigious institutions, in France and abroad: he has taken part in three Venice Biennales (2003, 2007, and 2015), as well as in the Lyon (2009), Havana (2009), Sydney (2010), Istanbul (2007), and Tirana (2005) Biennales, and in the Yokohama Triennale (2001). He has had shows in the Collection Lambert for the Maeght Fondation in Venice in 2015, the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2012, the MIT List Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2008, and at the MoMA PS1 New York in 2007. He has long collaborated with several poets and intellectuals.
