Art-o-rama Marseille 2025
29-31 August
Soup is delighted to participate in our first art fair, Art-o-rama Marseille 2025, with a solo presentation of new works by Alia Hamaoui. Hamaoui (b.1996) is a British-Lebanese artist living and working in London, UK. Her practice spans spatial configuration, sculpture, print and media, employing processes of (de)attiring/(de)upholstering/(de)skinning/(un)adorning/(de)constructing. Interested in the role of attire as the interface between a person and their political spatial realities, she often merges allusions to everyday liminal architecture with materiality or forms that are supposedly opposed – where the generic meets the culturally specific, the corporate meets the arable, the past meets the present.
Presented at Art-o-rama, Hamaoui’s work is continuation of her exploration into how the construction of cultural heritage within the nation state structure has reduced the past to an alienating formulaic rotation of the copied-and-paste portrayals. Presented as a semi-public changing room space, scenery and imagery fluctuates between the generic and the specific, where trompe-l’oeil, life-scaled compositions feature a combination of stock imagery, commonplace fixtures, surrealist veneer and faux crocodile leather textures, contrasted against distinct depictions pertaining to the authentication and repatriation of artefacts from the USA to Lebanon.
Replicant stripped II & III, Stripped second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant stripped I, Stripped second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, iron nails, chrome- plated shower drain, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Metamorphosed, C-type matte fuji print and fabric label in aluminium tray frame, 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant stripped II & III, Stripped second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant stripped I, Stripped second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, iron nails, chrome- plated shower drain, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
Replicant wrapped, Sottsass-veneered MDF, curtain tassel, cotton towel, second-hand Bath & Body faux crocodile duffel, recreated fragment of 3rd-century-AD marble mosaic of the House of Dionysus Bacchus (Djemila), 2025
