Crouching Venus with tabla, 2024
Plaster, tabla, wooden mask and steel,
270 × 90 × 100 cm




The work seeks to translate, through its assemblages of heterogeneous elements, the dissonances, discontinuities, and hybridizations they contain. It explores how images, whether historical or contemporary, are not static but constantly redefine and redeploy themselves across visual culture, literature, the natural and human sciences, and other fields. While this redeployment generally serves to underpin and reinforce existing historical and political tropes, it also holds the potential to contribute to rethinking and reactivating the past in the present.
Nidhal Chamekh © Adagp 2025