{"id":23820,"date":"2022-12-12T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/evenements\/le-calme-de-lidee-fixe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:00:12","slug":"le-calme-de-lidee-fixe","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/evenements\/le-calme-de-lidee-fixe\/","title":{"rendered":"le calme de l\u2019id\u00e9e fixe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The exhibition brings together some twenty artworks designed since 2013, with new productions demonstrating the artist\u2019s current lines of thinking, in which topography and architecture in particular have gained heightened prominence. The background has always had a key role to play in Massinissa Selmani\u2019s realistic sketches: whether intentionally absent, presented out of context or given a new composition, it adds to the absurdity of the situations and characters with inscrutable intentions. These spatial elements gradually break away from these narratives to become a subject in their own right. They embody fictional spaces \u2013 possible locations where our imaginations can roam free. <\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>A major series of drawings chimes with one particular installation that has been designed especially for the exhibition: a table\/scale model rises out of the darkness to form a mini laboratory churning out images, projects and outlined forms.<\/p>\n<p>At once a drafting table, architectural model or mapping tool, it also becomes a projection device for animated drawings shown on the surrounding screens. This experimentation unit models a mini make-believe place which can be connected in myriad ways \u2013 whether by echoes, reverberation or dissemination \u2013 to the fictional architecture and spaces woven into Massinissa Selmani\u2019s drawings.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition brings together some twenty artworks designed since 2013, with new productions demonstrating the artist\u2019s current lines of thinking, in which topography and architecture in particular have gained heightened prominence. The background has always had a key role to play in Massinissa Selmani\u2019s realistic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[135,155],"class_list":["post-23820","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-exposition","mec_category-massinissa-selmani"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/23820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23820"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=23820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}