As part of the Port, one of the plot of the central exhibition of Manifesta 13 Traits d’union.s, discover the work Embouteillages by Yassine Balbzioui (1972, MA), a series of paintings located on the façade of the Noailles metro station next to Place des Capucins. It unfolds an archive of images collected on-site, processed through the artist’s imagination
During his artistic residency, Yassine Balbzioui set up a workshop in the market of Place des Capucins: a crossroad of stories, encounters and tensions. The artist opened himself up to interactions and confrontations in order to construct narratives based on a combination of people’s stories and his own imagery. The characters and situations in his work are staged between fiction, absurd and unusual. They combine hybrid, unconventional, heterogeneous and ordinary aspects, all strongly anchored in the present.
By forging links between visible and the invisible, Balbzioui’s works create spaces where anything is possible, relating new perspectives and possible universes that are subject to all interpretations.
