Rituals

About

Abdul Rahman Katanani was born in 1983 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra, Lebanon. He holds a Master's degree from the Beirut School of Fine Arts. In 2009, he was awarded the Young Artists prize at the Salon d'Automne organized by the Sursock Museum in Beirut. His work has been presented in many institutions around the world, such as the Abu Dhabi Biennial, the Royal College of London, the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, the Cité Internationale des Arts and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Abdul Rahman Katanani is currently programmed in the 2021 Art Season of the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, for which he has created an in situ installation in the park of the Domaine. His works are present in public (Mathaf, Doha) and private collections.

There is no place in his compositions for a nostalgic vision of childhood which, from our adult perspective, would be like a lost paradise, a golden age where everything was necessarily simpler and lighter. These playful children do not enlighten us on a bygone moment but on a moment to strive for: the child is no longer what we have left, but on the contrary what we should reach. A resolutely confident vision of the future, thwarting any fatalism or determinism, is what Abdul Rahman Katanani invites us to here.

Come and discover his new solo exhibition at the 78 Rue Amelot in the Haut-Marais in Paris.