{"id":15441,"date":"2019-10-08T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laboite-kilanigroupe.com\/?page_id=15441"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:44:40","slug":"it-has-never-been-to-survive-ali-tnani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laboite-kilanigroupe.com\/en\/it-has-never-been-to-survive-ali-tnani\/","title":{"rendered":"It has never been to survive \u2013 Ali Tnani"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”colLeftPub” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text el_class=”descriptionPub pub-1 textExpoInterne”]\n

Ali Tnani<\/span>
\nIt has never been to survive<\/span><\/h1>\n

September 2013 I December 2013
\nLa Bo\u00eete I Un lieu d\u2019art contemporain<\/p>\n

Conceived both as an extension of my solo exhibition Contre-espaces at Galerie A. Gorgi, and as a fully-fledged part of my work with leftovers, the exhibition of the Others spaces series at La Bo\u00eete came at just the right time. At a time when my artistic practice was naturally converging towards new horizons, this exhibition evoked the beginnings of another approach to come. Now, these other spaces are no longer isolated and no cartography is possible for the moment. They are traversed without interruption by bodies and data.
\nOthers spaces is a series of 8 photographs (silver, medium format) made during my first stay at the Cit\u00e9 des Arts in Paris in 2012 and published for the exhibition It has never been to survive at La Bo\u00eete, in 2013. My interest in empty and isolated spaces found a form of refuge in the residual spaces of the underground network. Invisible during the day and sometimes at night, they appear when they are illuminated.<\/p>\n

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Ali Tnani<\/p>\n

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“Ali Tnani (1982) multimedia artist, illustrator, installation artist, and photographer admits to having a soft spot for traces, archives, and transitional spaces. Things we readily discard, things that remain in limbo because we take no pleasure in looking at them. The world that attracts Tnani is also the one we live in, but, to tell the truth, it is the shadowy, hidden side. Our world? It is not made up solely of figures of light; it is also constructed against appearance, through neglect, through what is set aside, even through erasure. In his exhibition at La Bo\u00eete, \u201cIt Has Never Been To Survive,\u201d Ali Tnani deliberately presents us with several photographs whose content is indiscernible. A provocation? Rather, an invitation to sharpen our senses, to hone our perception. Against a white background, placed on a horizon line, objects of indefinable abstract form present themselves to our questioning eyes. Fragments? Recycled material? Useful forms? Elements that cannot be defined and are dependent on the culture of the \u201cformless\u201d once dear to Georges Bataille? This type of uncertain visual offering, without pedigree, is nourished in Tnani’s work by what he himself calls the figure of \u201ccounter-space\u201d or \u201cother space\u201d: a formulation connoting “difference .” This is further evidenced by his photographic series Other Spaces, whose content is both cryptic and explicit. Other Spaces #5: a square-format color photograph presents us with a low-angle view of an anonymous metal stairwell, the kind that clings to the back of buildings or in the heart of factories, not made to be seen. Other Spaces #8: this other photograph, of the same murky nature, reveals the banal view of a sidewalk curb. Almost nothing, then, nothing sublime, but nevertheless an essential element of reality. On what surface do we walk in our sprawling cities, if not on a sidewalk, which supports us and makes our movement easy? An artist fascinated by anti-spectacle, Ali Tnani’s \u201cother spaces\u201d feed into the allotopic theme, once dear to philosopher Michel Foucault. He acts as an archivist of these essential human places that we sideline because they do not generate symbolic added value. \u201cMy interest in empty and isolated spaces finds refuge in the residual spaces of the underground network,\u201d explains Tnani. “Invisible during the day and sometimes at night, i An artist fascinated by anti-spectacle, Ali Tnani’s \u201cother spaces\u201d feed into the allotopic theme, once dear to philosopher Michel Foucault. He acts as an archivist of these essential human places that we sideline because they do not generate symbolic added value. \u201cMy interest in empty and isolated spaces finds refuge in the residual spaces of the underground network,\u201d explains Tnani. “Invisible during the day and sometimes at night, they appear when illuminated (…).\u201c Figures of nothing? Certainly not, he continues. These spaces \u201dare constantly traversed by bodies and data.”<\/p>\n

Paul Ardenne<\/p>\n

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