sweet melanin
Photography , collective exhibition (DNA), Yosr Ben Ammar Gallery , 2023 , Tunisia.
HER/ Sweet Melanin,
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
VISA/ Sweet Melanin,
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
Soul/ Sweet Melanin,
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
Hand/ Sweet Melanin,
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
1,2,3 / Sweet Melanin,
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
Photographies numériques sur papier fine art ultra smooth bright, 110x165 cm, 2023
Sweet melanin
is an ode to our foresmost dwelling as humans, to the skin that carries our weights and embraces our battles: The skin that we rarely celebrate its small victories and divine beauty. Bachir Tayachi, in his series of majestic and dreamy photographs, pays an hommage to his muse and flaunts the depth of her features in a waltz of color and light. The photographs unveils the subtle beauty that escapes our eyes and accentuates a universal delicacy that unites us all. Beyond the flesh and through the flesh, Bachir awakens our intangible identity and heritage.
As we nowadays disconnect, discontented before our screens and virtual beauty standards, the artist seeks to stitch the gap separating us, requestion the norms blinding us and reclaim human beauty in the contemporary art scenes.
Sweet Melanin is also an echoing light in the darkness of the current political circumstances shadowing our days and spitting hate and aggression towards skins they deem unworthy. In a world where discrimination picks on an open wound, the exhibition evokes a wound through which light envelops you whole.
Text : ons benjannet
