Combining time-based media and installation with elements drawn from poetry, pop culture, and literature, Lakhrissi transdisciplinary practice centres on queer and diasporic perspectives and experiences.
In SPIT, Lakhrissi presents a new body of work comprising a giant 3D-printed ‘Angry Face With Horns’ emoji, glass sculptures representing suns and kissing tongues, and a series of drawings – the artist’s first foray into this medium – showing queer angels and demons. Inspired by an event during which the artist was spat on and verbally attacked during Pride in Paris for carrying Palestinian and Algerian flags, the exhibition takes the physical act of ejecting liquid from one’s mouth, and the erotic and agressive dimensions of this act, as a point of departure to explore tensions between violence and desire, subversion and resistance.
Tarek Lakhrissi (1992, Châtellerault, FR) lives and works in Paris. In 2024, he has been selected by artist Ugo Rondinone for the Reiffers Initiatives mentorship programme, which will lead to a duo exhibition at Reiffers Art Centre, Paris, opening on 14 October 2024.
His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including Hayward Gallery, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, 22nd Biennale of Sydney; HKW, Berlin; Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels; Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Wiels, Brussels; Palazzo Re Rebaudengo/Sandretto, Mostyn, Llandudno; Tinguely Museum, Basel; Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris; Quadriennale di Roma; La Verrière, Fondation d’enterprise Hermès, Brussels; Kevin Space, Vienna; Auto Italia, London; Fondation Gulbenkian, Paris; and Kim?, Riga; among others.
Tarek Lakhrissi, UNSEEN SUN II (DARK PURPLE), 2024.
Blown glass, D: 25 cm
Tarek Lakhrissi, Solar Cry, 2024.
Charcoal and graphite pencil on paper, metal frame, 42 x 29 cm.
Lakhrissi’s artworks are held in private and public collections such as Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, France; Fondazione Sandretto Collection, Italy; Fiorucci Art Trust, UK and Italy; Defares Collection, Netherlands; CNAP, France; FRAC Aquitaine MÉCA, France; FRAC Grand Large, France; IAC Villeurbanne, France; FMAC, France; Mauro Mattei Art Trust, UK and Italy; and the Johns Hopkins University Collection.
3D printing, polystyrene, epoxy resin, metallic paint, 150 x 230 x 140 cm
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