Exhibition
Soufiane Ababri
28 Sep 2018 – 24 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 129-131 Mare Street
- London
England - E8 3RH
- United Kingdom
About
Soufiane Ababri (b. 1985 in Tangier, Morocco) is creating a new body of work for a solo exhibition in the main gallery of SPACE Mare Street. This will be Ababri’s first exhibition in the UK. For this commission, SPACE is working in partnership with Glassbox gallery in Paris to generate a high profile exchange between London and Paris in support of Ababri’s work.
Ababri’s work confronts themes of homophobia and racism in order to dismantle mechanisms of domination—from post-colonialist to patriarchal power structures—while aiming to thwart oppressive social dynamics. His intimately drawn, erotically charged scenes are inspired from images of his family and friends, online sources and from art history. The artist highlights the influence of violence on the forms of art history and on cultural identities. Appropriating everyday moments, street scenes, press photographs and intimate acts, he explores themes of anonymous sex, gay icons, post-colonial exoticism and relationships of domination. His evocative drawings, installations and performances contribute greatly to contemporary art discourse on race and sexual identity.