Max Moulay Mansour Boufathal

Max Boufathal makes sculptures of gods, monsters, objects of natural history. he does not hesitate to dip into the craft, the aesthetic of «world cultures» as the means to produce forms that take into account all the achievements of modernity and create new artifacts that combine tribal art and consumerism. He connects myths, political systems and different beliefs through a subjective exploration of his «black inside» his métis culture and the concept of community. The works he achieves may therefore appear as signs from a new culture, marginal outsized.
The artist walks the territories of a reinvented world with jammed cultural codes, social and economic values. He conceives a sort of subjective inventory, a gathering of objects evoking everyday life, visions of future and survival, not stopping crossing «ancestral» referents and mass consumption, peculiarity and appropriation. His work evokes mixed and distorted models: their shaman and industrial magnetism could indeed replace what Walter Benjamin had described as a «poverty in experience» of the contemporary world.
Established from simple, available elements, this collection constitutes the raw material, the poverty of the artist, training for its way the forms of the material world to establish a new referent.