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Younes Baba-Ali
Younes Baba-Ali makes art that is unconventional, intelligent and critical, mostly in public space or places uncommon to art practice. He is a sharp observer and raises pertinent questions aimed at society, the institution and above all, his audience. As a free thinker he holds a mirror up to society and confronts it with its ingrained habits and dysfunctions. Baba-Ali’s work often assumes the form of the readymade, but underneath its facade of simplicity there is a complex exercise in balance at work. As an artist-alchemist he measures and mixes technology, objects, sound, video and photography with political, social and ecological issues. The resulting installations discreetly coerce the unsuspecting viewer into taking a stand. Baba-Ali shuns no controversy and often finds himself negotiating his art and its rationale with his environment. His works are context-specific and take their final form in dialogue with its spectators. This at times disruptive intervention art confronts the viewer in an ironical way with himself and his environment. Baba-Ali presents people dilemmas and taboos and challenges them to (re)act. In this way he makes them his accomplices in acts of artistic guerrilla that unite the establishment and the common man.
Baba-Ali has received numerous awards, including the “Léopold Sédar Senghor” Prize at the Dakar Biennale (2012) and the “Boghossian” Prize at Art’Contest in Brussels (2014). His engagement with both institutional and alternative structures extends to international residencies, including Villa Albertine in New York (2024), Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, and Villa Romana in Florence.
Baba-Ali’s works are included in prestigious public and private collections, notably at Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Mu.ZEE (Ostend), Middelheim (Antwerp), FRAC PACA (Marseille), and M Leuven (Leuven).
