Projects, Legend
Legend 2010
At the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station in Paris, hawkers sell cigarettes: “Marlboro! Legend!” Mohamed Bourouissa gave each one of them a hidden micro-camera to wear so that they could film their experiences. In these snatches of subjective camera, and some encounters staged by the artist, information is obtained, deals are negotiated, a woman gets chatted up, and the police are evaded. Together, the sequences are composed as a fragmented and broken narrative, as breathless and bustling as surreptitious exchanges at the top of an escalator.
Legend, 2010, video color and sound, 11’ © Mohamed Bourouissa ADAGP
Shown at :
• Libre Echange, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), 2019
• Dynasty, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR), 2010