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Exhibition review: Whispers, Noise and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation.
artishock magazine, 2026
Coverage of the group exhibition at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), which brings together more than sixty artistic and research voices to critically reflect on the politics of representation and enunciation from non-hegemonic perspectives. The exhibition presents works in various formats and proposes to question how discourses circulate within art institutions, exploring new forms of self-representation and dialogue from the margins.
Exhibition review: Whispers, Noise and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation
Time Out , 2025.
A group exhibition that challenges dominant narratives and explores enunciation from diverse political and cultural perspectives. Youssef Taki's work participates in the dialogue on margins, liminal spaces, and self-representation.
Interview in elDiario.es , 2025. A conversation about the artistic and research practice of Youssef Taki, in which he reflects on the relationship between art, politics, and memory. This interview addresses topics such as self-representation, the decolonial perspective, and the function of art as a space of resistance against dominant narratives.
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Colegio de España, June 2025
Youssef Taki's exhibition Out of Place – Déplacé proposes to reconstruct a broken memory, weaving together intimate fragments with collective narratives. The exhibition moves between the personal and the shared, exploring exile, loss, and the archive as a poetic space of resistance against oblivion.
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Artishock Magazine, January 2025. Review of the exhibition The Production of Otherness at Disseny Hub Barcelona (October 24, 2024 – January 5, 2025), curated by Maite Borjabad. The article analyzes how the works of the participating artists, including Youssef Taki, question the cultural and institutional mechanisms that construct the notion of “other” and propose new interpretations of identity, representation, and power.
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Review of the exhibition and workshops: Falces preserves the memory of migrants
Navarra News, April 2025
The artist Youssef Taki participated in an exhibition project in Falces (Navarra) focused on preserving the memory of migrants. The project brought art and collective memory into dialogue, addressing experiences of displacement and belonging from a critical and sensitive perspective. Through his work, Taki explored how personal narratives intertwine with shared history, recovering voices and presences that are often left out of the official narrative.
UCLM News / Cuenca News / Voices of Cuenca, November 2024. Youssef Taki participated in the 15th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary Art, one of the most significant events on the African and international art scene. Under the conceptual framework of "The Wake ," his work explored the persistent traces of colonialism and the processes of identity construction in the diaspora. The artist presented the pieces "External Memories , " " Fragments , " and "Cross Bodies ," three projects that address memory, displacement, and the representation of the migrant body from a critical and poetic perspective.
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Freijo Gallery , September 2024
The Freijo Gallery presented the exhibition Appropriations and Memories , curated by Ramón Mateos, which brought together the works of Youssef Taki and Joan Fontcuberta. The show addressed the preservation of and access to memory in the digital age, questioning how the democratizing dream of universal access clashes with what memory is preserved, as well as who accesses it and how. In his project External Memories , Taki recovered migrant stories distorted and dehumanized by the media, restoring hard drives and external drives from old computers to reconstruct and preserve the digital memory of migrants.
The full press release is available on the Freijo Gallery website: Freijo Gallery Press Release
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, July 2024
The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation presented the exhibition "The Sagrada Familia is Still Under Construction ," curated by the young curators Nikki Nita, Kaushal Sapre, and Phokeng Setai. The exhibition brought together prominent emerging Spanish artists . The director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Manuel Segade, highlighted the approach of the work "External Memories," which transforms photography into a reflection on the material culture contained within images.
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Oyoun, Berlin, December 2023
The group exhibition Land, Safety and Grief , organized by MENA Art Gallery and Untold Stories, brought together artists who examine the loss of territory, the search for safety, and spaces for mourning in contexts of social and political instability. Youssef Taki participated with the work Habitar el borde (Inhabiting the Edge) , a visual reflection on being in-between, mixtures and displacement, borders, and the reconstruction of memory in territories of transit.
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Exhibition review: Out of Place – En_Red_Arte Project
Tudela City Council, October 2023
Artist Youssef Taki presented the exhibition "Out of Place" at the Muñoz Sola Museum in Tudela, as part of the En_Red_Arte project. The exhibition brought together a series of pieces and workshops that took place in different locations in Navarre.
University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Cuenca – May 2022
The exhibition "Out of Place ," by Youssef Taki, presented a reflection on the migratory experience using pages from old books as a medium. The exhibition toured several campuses of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), art spaces, and cultural centers in Tenerife, Navarre, and other locations, addressing themes of memory, uprooting, and displacement.
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