Malik Nejmi Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1973 -

French-Moroccan by origin (born in 1973 in France), Malik Nejmi analyzes simultaneously familial and collective stories.

After a long trip in Benin in 1999, he developps what settles basically his work through the utmost variety of forms and technics . It deals with documentary that tracks differences and diversities appearaing inside a culture, a country or through migrant people coping with changing fates, grieves, joys, rejections,...

His whole work is divided into two parts. On the one hand Malik Nejmi uses small photographic stories in order to carry out engaged investigations and anthropologic inquiries (mainly in Africa) highlighting both strong cultural interactions and the reconquest of a territory related to childhood and ritual. He explores the very notion of group membership by focusing on communities and families. On the other hand, he intends to re-establish the links with Morocco left by his father for France.

By using habitual transmission codes in his work, Malik Nejmi applies himself to creating stories going further than plain childhood recollections and the nostalgic reminder about the history of immigration. From his work emerges a nameless territory, ' the territory of the soul' as he call its, suspended and ghostly. What matters is to link again two countries and two generations. The imaginary memory related to France of the 80's and 70's and to postcolonial Morocco forms his main topic, as much as understanding why his father gave up coming back to Morocco. He likes to mix up the opposite destinies of migrants looking for hope, and sons of fomer migrants looking for coming back to their African fatherlands.

Hence he belongs to a photographic trend located bothside of Mediterranean and trying to express the constant migration movements of our present world.