Adel Abdessemed
Collaboration coming soon
Adel Abdessemed’s life and art has been shaped by terror and violence. During the first few years of increasing tensions between the government and guerrilla factions in Algeria, Abdessemed studied Fine Art at École Supérieure des Beaux Arts. In 1994 Ahmed Assalah, the University’s director, and his son were murdered on school grounds, which led the artist to evacuate his home country. Since then, he has lived and worked in France and England amidst a political age marked by ‘the war on terror.’ While utilising multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, film and installation, all of his work is driven by a singular motive: to expose the cruel and inconvenient realities of systemic, organised violence.