Adel Abdessemed : L’âge D’or

L’age d’or, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, delves into notions of past, present, and future through works made with materials such as salt, jade, porcelain, gold, resin, bamboo, and bronze. An Algerian-born, Paris-based artist of Berber descent who is fiercely interdisciplinary and famously resistant to the pigeonholes of identity politics, Abdessemed presents more than a dozen commissions, a handful of existing works, three site-specific projects, and a large-scale public sculpture. Viewers anticipate intimations of violence and evocations of memory as subtle, generative, and uncompromising as the artist’s practice to date.

I was the lead design and production focal point. I worked closely with curator to create the layouts,  circulation, and lighting design.  In addition, I also managed a complicated production such as creating a 10 ton clay relief in one of the galleries, moving a 12 ton rock into one of the galleries, and two multi-wall projections. I ensured the design was implemented properly on all levels.