Press release, March, 2023

Karim Boumjimar collection of works examines society through the lens of seeing, observing a world that watches them and discussing how intimacy may be used to scrutinise social structures.

The works of Boumjimar slip under the power of visual constructions that question and challenge social hierarchies within our culture. Their practice, performance and drawings act as a parallel language that informs a different resonance material, informing and contradicting one another in complex and analogical ways. Since 2015, their work has operated as a visual journal connecting stories and meeting halfway with their fantasies, exploring identity and the affinities in which nature and culture appear as intertwined categories, with qualities born from their interchange, then immersed in the middle of watered-down queer narratives and ethnographic conceptualizations.

Karim Boumjimar’s drawings leap the audience into their world, gravitating towards acquiring a visual language to understand chaos and intimacy. Drawing has become an attempt to freeze certain moments and find ways to re-choreograph those situations. Through their practice, Karim deciphers findings from their surroundings into a tangible visual language to share these ideas. The drawings are accomplished to reflect on conceptions of ecstatic hu- manness charged with re-interpreted social dynamics and have become a vital part of developing cultural identity in their art.

Karim Boumjimar (b. 1998) has exhibited works at Art Hub Copenhagen, Overgaden, Blake and Vargas (DE), Victoria Miro (UK) and taken part in Moby-Dick; The Whale, a feature film by Wu Tsang. Karim Boumjimar has collaborated with Tim Walker, Vivienne Westwood and Young Boy Dancing Group extensively.

Opening: Thursday March 30, 17-22.
Additional opening hours: Friday, 31 March, 11-19. Monday, 10 April, 11-19.
The exhibition space consists of three rooms and can be opened for appointments.
Exhibition period: March 30 - April 10, 2023.