Abdelkader Benchamma opens exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris
(Artdaily.org)

Back from his residency at Villa Medicis, Abdelkader Benchamma is exhibiting at Galerie Daniel Templon for the very first time. Through the recurring medium of black and white murals, chosen for their simplicity and graphic power, the artist has developed a language which causes viewers to doubt their perception of reality, immersing them in unstable and dynamic universes. From enveloping moving matter at the New York Drawing Center (2015-2016) to a cave animated by a furious circular vortex for the Sharjah Biennale (2017) and a fossilised Big Bang covering the floor of the Collège des Bernadins (2018), his somewhat metaphysical installations question our relationship with the intangible, the infinite, the invisible. Inspired by literature, astrophysics, philosophy and esotericism, his work redefines