The Cabinet presents a selection of photographs from Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini‘s series The City in the Sky (2013) and I Saw the Sky (2009), in which the artist portrays fragments of the landscapes of her childhood. A coast, the seaside, a construction site appear in the image altered, blurred, almost unreal as if they were scenes from dream. The artist displaces her dear reality in the sky, where the horizon is wide and tending to the infiniteness. Such decontextualization subtly quotes the modes of representation typical of Surrealist films, while suggesting the artist’s attempt to escape our today’s reality towards border and more open places.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘The City in the Sky’, 2013, photography, gelatin silver print on Baryta, 120 m x 120m. Image courtesy the artist.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘The City in the Sky’, 2013, photography, gelatin silver print on Baryta, 120 m x 120m. Image courtesy the artist.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘I Saw the Sky’, 2009, photography, silver print. Image courtesy the artist.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘I Saw the Sky’, 2009, photography, silver print. Image courtesy the artist.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘I Saw the Sky’, 2009, photography, silver print. Image courtesy the artist.
Nicène Kossentini, ‘I Saw the Sky’, 2009, photography, silver print. Image courtesy the artist.