Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion

Kader Attia is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist who examines the way cultures and histories have been constructed. He uses re-appropriated and repaired everyday objects and ephemera to trouble the boundaries between different worlds, particularly Western and non-Western. An extended interview with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explores the artists major themes, while art historians and other experts draw out particular threads to examine in depth.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2019
Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing

One of the rising stars in the international art scene, Kader Attia is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist whose powerful yet complex images, objects, and installations examine the way cultures and histories have been constructed. Attia often plays with the vocabulary of museums and architecture to trouble the boundaries between different worlds, particularly Western and non-Western, through his use of re-appropriated and repaired everyday objects and ephemera, such as African masks, stapled paving cracks, assemblages of prostheses, and photographs of surgical reconstruction.

An extended interview with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explores the artist's major themes, while art historians and other experts draw out particular threads to examine in depth. Compact but wide-ranging, this is an indispensable first guide to an artist with an exceptional perspective on the way humans think about their place in the world.

Weight: 710g
Dimension: 197 x 259 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781853323591