Injury and Repair: Kader Attia — Mousse Magazine and Publishing

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In conversation with Gabriele Sassone, Kader Attia investigates the dialectic between destruction and repair—the latter intended as a kind of cultural resistance and reappropriation of the body and its history, much like in the Japanese art of ceramics repair known as kintsugi. The artist unfolds how (in his vision) injuries, wounds, and illnesses are a mark of time and history working in the face of the paradoxical speed of our contemporary reality, tracing a parable that links primitivism, modernity, and colonialism while also expressing faith in art to restore the fragmented society composing the contemporary world. Gabriele Sassone: I would like to start our conversation talking about destruction because generally when art critics or curators talk about your work, they usually start talking about repair, of course. But I want to take a step back and start with the concept of destruction. For instance, Melanie Klein and part of the Anglo-Saxon School of psychoanalysis (who wrote man

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Injury and Repair: Kader Attia — Mousse Magazine and Publishing

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