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Item: 870 petites images coupées

Hicham Benohoud

2004

Photography, 116 x 89 cm.
Materials: silver gelatine print

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007623).

The photos of Hicham Benohoud originate in a reserve against the Islamic traditions, culture, power and society. His work is both staged and documentary and touches both the tragic, playful and absurd. He uses the body, often his own body, in order to develop a reflection about identity, individuality, freedom and integrity. Values that are often threatened by social and cultural constraints. An example can be found in the work Petites images coupées, 2004. Through the repetition of the same portrait he reduces the image of man to an object. The work is a mysterious picture of cover and display, decoration and defamation, humanity and alienation.

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Hicham Benohoud
After teaching visual arts for 13 years in Marrakech, Hicham Benohoud leaves Morocco to live in Paris, though still often traveling back to h

About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.