Literature

Bechir Boussandel's paintings raise questions relating to identity by destabilising notions of the space of time and the time of space. The artist is preoccupied with the boundaries that define public and private spaces and reflects upon the duality involving everyday objects and practices that relate to notions of territory, mobility, appropriation or habitat.

Boussandel construct fictional and utopian scenes across various scales. He invites the viewer to journey through an unfamiliar landscape - a survey of the land - with the notions of territories and travel through space and time central to the series. Boussandel’s palette of fire oranges and reds speaks of twilight - a moment of the day when one is suspended waiting for the sky to touch the earth yet his landscapes are composed intentionally without a horizon line. Desert plant life that can flourish in harsh climatic conditions - palms and cacti - as well as migrating birds and levitating fruit, freed from the fixture of the soil, are also recurring motifs within Boussandel’s compositions.