Sabrina Amrani presents the third solo exhibition of Nicène Kossentini s work at the gallery
Nicène Kossentini, Detail of Poem of Abû Nuwâs, 2020. Ink on paper. 41 x 31 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani.
MADRID
.- Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia, 1977) continues to explore the social and political dimension of culture. For Memorising, the artist prepared a series of works based on texts by Arab philosophers, thinkers and poets, such as Ibn Khaldun or Khalil Gibran. The calligraphic texts here disappear in an exercise of miniature writing that makes the reading complex and the meaning impossible: works in which famous quotes are intertwined, poems are superimposed, or history texts are dissolved in water. Nicène questions not only the liquid aspect of culture and tradition, but also the concepts of identity, civilization and history. How does a civilization survive and evolve when tangible knowledge becomes unintelligible?