Wallpapers, waxed parquet floors, sofas… Painted with unimaginable meticulousness in shimmering, velvety tones, the elements that make up the interiors of Dhewadi Hadjab, the new protégé of the Kamel Mennour Gallery, have one thing of a false ring to them, just like the sets of vaudevilles hiding some underlying drama of their stifling comfort.
In Dhewadi Hadjab’s well-executed paintings, nevertheless, there isn't a concealment or deception: every little thing is claimed, or a minimum of recommended. The cracks, the fissures, the issues… are at the heart of the artist’s strange huis clos where every little thing wavers: wallpapers are torn, lemons rot on the floor, sofas are overturned, as well as bodies that twist or collapse… It's this fault line, this level of rupture that pursuits the artist, looking for in the convulsive magnificence, within the jolt of the physique constrained by discomfort, a second of fact.
Magnificently choreographed in his giant canvases, these moments of abandonment mix heaviness and style.
Born in 1992 in M’Sila (Algeria), Dhewadi Hadja lives and works in Paris, the place he has simply graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges in 2019, following a five-year course at the École supérieure des beaux-arts d’Alger.
Stéphanie Dulout
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