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Blackface 1, 2019
Blackface
Lambda print mounted on Dibond
73 x 110 cm
Edition of 5 ex -
La bête, 2019
Photography
Dimensions variables
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Echo, 2019
Video
2 min 49 sec
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La grande dévoreuse - Villa Médicis, Rome, 29.03.2018
Video of the performance (ca. 10 min)
Edition of 5 ex -
La valise de Narcisse, 2018
Inscriptions in Pelistic on suitcase
80 x 30 x 50 cm
Collection particulière -
Miroir, 2018
Mirror and inscriptions in Pelistic
276 x 176 cm
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Sans titre, 2018
Mix media on paper (Pelistic inscriptions)
160 x 140 cm
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Sans titre, 2018
Mix media on paper (Pelistic inscriptions)
196 x 130 cm
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Caprice, 2017
Video (ca. 6 min) + Installation
Collection particulière -
Super Congo n°7, 2016
Painting + video
168 x 310 cm // ca. 4 min
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Invisible man 8, 2014
tirage lambda contrecollé sur dibond
110 x 73 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP -
Invisible man 7, 2014
tirage lambda contrecollé sur dibond
110 x 73 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP -
Invisible man 3, 2014
tirage lambda contrecollé sur dibond
110 x 73 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP -
Invisible man 2, 2014
tirage lambda contrecollé sur dibond
110 x 73 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP -
I'm afraid, 2014
Ensemble de 4 photographie noir et blanc contrecollées sur dibond
57 x 60 cm each
Edition of 5 ex
Collection François Pinault (ed. 1/5) -
Corpus Delicti 2, 2014
Photograph
153 x 125 cm
Edition of 5 ex -
Corpus Delicti 1, 2014
Photograph
153 x 125 cm
Edition of 5 ex -
Corpus Delicti 3, 2014
Photograph
153 x 125 cm
Edition of 5 ex -
Corpus Delicti 4, 2014
Photograph
153 x 125 cm
Edition of 5 ex -
Rising Carpet, 2014
sculpture multimedia
Socle : diam. 180 cm
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Corps d'esclaves, 2013
série Points de vue
Video
3 min.
Edition of 5 ex -
Versus Video, 2012
Video
35sec
Edition of 5 ex -
L'étalon noir, 2011
Video
1min 35sec
Edition of 5 ex
Epuisé. Collections FRAC PACA (ed.1/5) // FNAC (ed. 5/5)
Introduction
If Moussa Sarr uses the workshop as a space of research and experimentation allowing him to enlarge his corpus of animal characters, it is also a place of withdrawal and letting go where, through the interpretation of animals, he lets himself go to his delusions to finally become an animal-man. In this space where nobody looks, nor judges, the only witness remains the camera. For the artist, it is a political, social and artistic asylum.
Each character is distinguished by precise character traits and situations, which seem to be the corollary of their identity, here clearly assigned: the monkey is in a state of sexual pleasure, the stallion parades and fights, the rooster makes his crow ring. The question of prejudice is at the heart of Moussa Sarr's practice, which often echoes current events with humour and positions the viewer, laughing and embarrassed, in a certain uncomfortable zone.
Some of his most recent characters, dealing with problems relating more particularly to the field of art. Among them, Super Congo, a monkey whose paintings have entered the international contemporary art circuit, or Duckman, a philosopher and art critic. Renewing his experimental subjects, Moussa Sarr also enriched his corpus of videos and performances by exploring mediums as varied as photography (Corpus delicti, 2014) and painting (Super Congo, 2016).
Moussa SARR was born in Ajaccio in 1984. He lives and works in Paris.
After studying at the Toulon School of Fine Arts, Moussa Sarr took part in the Salon d'Art contemporain de Montrouge and Jeune création in 2008. In 2010, his work was selected for the FIAC, in the Cinéphémère program of the Ricard Foundation. Invited in 2011 by the BJCEM (Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki, Greece), in 2012 he presents his videos at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for the 17th edition of the Annual Boston French Film Festival. In 2013, he studied at Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains before participating in the group exhibition "Mirages d'Orient, grenades et figues de barbarie" at the Collection Lambert in Avignon.
Winner of the Coup de Coeur Mécènes du Sud Prize (Marseille) in 2012, Moussa Sarr was also finalist of the Meurice Prize for contemporary art in 2016. His works have now been included in prestigious collections including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, the FRAC PACA, the FNAC - Fond National d'Art Contemporain (Paris), the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the Collection François Pinault and many other private French and international collections.
