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New York – Kader Attia: “Show Your Injuries” at Lehmann Maupin Through December 14th, 2014

Sunday, December 14th, 2014


Kader Attia, Asesinos! Asesinos! (2014), All images are the courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Photography by Elisabeth Bernstein

Currently on view at both Lehmann Maupin spaces in New York, on the  Lower East Side and in Chelsea, Kader Attia’s Show Your Injuries presents a striking first show for the artist with the gallery.  Born in the suburbs of Paris, and raised both in France and Algeria, Attia appoints his multicultural background as his source of inspiration, studying the consequences of his dual cultural identity, both as an advantage and as a challenge. (more…)