Project
Masterpiece of Mounir Fatmi : Save Manhattan 03
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
In this column for Mounir Fatmi series, we introduce Save Manhattan 03, one of the most impressive ones in his past works.
It is composed of ninety speakers laid out just as skyscrapers in Manhattan, suggestive already of the event of 9.11. The speakers give out sounds of city life such as of airplanes taking off or of radio broadcasts, and the
symbolic skyline of the lost World Trade Center buildings seem to admit the revival, if it is superficial, of the everyday life of the people living there.
symbolic skyline of the lost World Trade Center buildings seem to admit the revival, if it is superficial, of the everyday life of the people living there.
The vision that Fatmi fosters vis-à-vis New York is recognized as the eye from outside, or peripheral vision as our exhibition title indicate. It may be that he can reflect on such social issue so deeply and with respect because he is the outsider. He is always travelling, his multiple identity of Moroccan and of French, from culture to culture himself. Thus he tries to invite the people to look from another perspective at the present world.
Mounir Fatmi : Peripheral Vision