Bili Bidjocka
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Bili Bidjocka has attended in numerous collectives and he has shown at the Biennal of Johannesburg (1997), Havana (1997), Dakar (2000), Taipei (2004) and Venice Biennal (inside Check List - Luanda Pop, 2007 curated by Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami); he showed his works at the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York and in the exposition Africa Remix (Düsseldorf, Londra, Parigi, Tokyo, Johannesburg, 2005-2007). He founded and directed the contemporary Art Center Matrix Art Project in Bruxelles.
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[edit] L'écriture infinie
L'écriture infinie is a work of Bili Bidjocka. Its aim is to write the biggest collection of handwritten books of the world, while we observe the progressive extinction of the handwritten writing because of the new technologies.
It consist of a series of books with 6000 white page, 104 cm long and 100 kg. The artist declares that the public is invited to write - "as it was the last thing to do before the cut of an hand". The founder act is the writing act in itself and not the reading after. Each book, once done, is packed into a linen material. The idea is that these books will be opened in the day where writing will not exist anymore. There is now existing 7 books; one is at the Venice Biennal inside the exhibition Check List - Luanda Pop and another one in a Japanese temple.
[edit] Other works
- Skin, (panel), Albissola Marina
