SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE HOUSE OF CULTURE LES BERNARDES DE SALT - GIRONA - SPAIN (MAY 3 - JUNE 28, 2019) Aisha in Wonderland, a Journey to Girona by Maïmouna Guerresi

The House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona) is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Spain of the Italian-Senegalese artist Maïmouna Guerresi with Aisha in Wonderland, a Journey to Girona that runs from 3 May – 28 June 2019. Laura Cornejo Brugués and Manuela De Leonardis curated the exhibition in collaboration with the Pasquale Battista Foundation.

The exhibition will open in the presence of the artist; the curators Laura Cornejo Brugués and Manuela De Leonardis; Annalisa Zito, Director of Pasquale Battista Foundation and Robert Fàbregasi Ripoll, Director of the House of Culture - Les Bernardes.

Sound 5, 2017,Lambda print, 200 × 125 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Maïmouna Guerresi presents new works of photography, video, and installation and she invites the viewer to rethink the relationship between "subjectivity" and "otherness". The hostile, asymmetric, rejecting or assimilative relationships should be abandoned in favour of a harmonious scenario in which bodies, deities, objects, nature, and architecture offer the possibility of coexisting outside the logic of terror, exploitation and domination.

Through a renewed iconographic updating of Islamic religious symbols and of Western artistic languages, this artist brings together art, spirituality, and life. Maïmouna Guerresi’s work represents a journey towards an inner and hidden universe revealing moods, feelings, and existential thoughts upon the incessant quest to find oneself and a new identity.

Maïmouna Guerresi lives and works between Italy and Senegal. She is a photographer, sculptor, performer, video and installation artist. Her work has been included in the Venice Biennale (in 1982 and 1986), the Rome Quadriennale (1986) and Documenta K18 in Kassel (1987), as well as in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Africa, United States, Asia, and the Middle East. Her works are included in both public and private collections worldwide including the Boghossian Foundation in Belgium; Palazzo della Ragione in Italy; Tasveer Foundation in India; Fondation Alliances in Morocco; Minneapolis Institute of Art, LACMA Museum and the Smithsonian African Museum in the United States of America.

Sound 6, 2017, Lambda print, 200 × 125 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Sound 1, 2017, Lambda print, 70 × 100 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Aisha, 2015, Lambda print, 200 × 125 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Mimetic Landscape, 2015 Lambda print, 55 × 41 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Aisha’s Stories 1, 2016 Lambda print, 143 × 125 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Aisha’s Stories 2, 2016 Lambda print, 143 × 125 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Red Trampoline, 2016 Lambda print, 200 × 82,52 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Blue Trampoline, 2016 Lambda print, 200 × 90,83 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Grey Trampoline, 2016 Lambda print, 200 × 82,52 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

La sala de les ablucions, 2019, Installation, steel structures; chair, aluminium castings, 81,5 × 36,5 × 40 cm; slippers, painted fabric, 390 × 136 cm; clothes hangers, aluminum castings; photos on aluminum / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Unknown Map 10, 2018, different fabrics embroidered by hand, 293 × 129 cm / ©MaïmounaGuerresi / Courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery