False is a series of five photographs taken in 2012 and acquired by the CNAP the following year. In False 1 and False 2, Simohammed Fettaka asked a homeless man from the Tangier Casbah to pose, attired like a Moroccan king, in an ancient royal palace. The artist’s approach subverts the official image, thereby giving a place to people banished from society as heroin addicts and restoring a rightful place to the invisible and the under-represented.
Simohammed Fettaka is a multidisciplinary artist, born in 1981. He currently lives and works between Tangier and Paris. Simohammed studied Philosophy and Signal Processing in Morocco and later trained in filmmaking at La Femis, Paris. He founded the yearly Tangiers film festival Cinema Nachia. His work predominantly uses the medium of film, however it also incorporates photography and collage and extends to other art forms such as installation, sound art and performance. At the centre of his work is a reflection on the presentation of the image. This graphic personal interpretation is based on collective memory: the individual visual experience must thereby lead us to question our sense of ourselves.
Thanks to Pascal Beausse, head of the photographic collections, and to the teams of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques who have allowed this project to be carried out.
Coordination: Annabelle Oliveira, Communications and Information at CNAP. Assisted Zelie Davin, Responsible for acquisitions photography, video, audiovisual and new media Cnap.
Translation: L’Œil de la Photographie.
Each week you can find the presentation of a piece from the photographic collection of CNAP http://www.cnap.fr and L’Oeil de la Photographie. Available in French and in English
