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Salim Bayri
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Salim Bayri (Casablanca 1992), while making sculptures in virtual reality, listens to obsolete online chatrooms where strangeness, blasphemy, and pulling each other’s leg are common practice. As a polyglot, Bayri is able to enter many of the different rooms where diasporas gather.
His alter ego “Sad Ali,” short for Sad Alien, reflects this approach. Sad Ali is a silent character with a translucent body – he explores but is not a participant. Floating between scenes he is granted a fluidity that cannot be pinned down.
In his studio, he is developing a ‘Hadra1 Collider’ also spelled: ‘7adra2 Collider’ or ‘8adra3 Collider’. A conceptual device he coined in reference to the Large Hadron Collider to imagine a particle accelerator built inside his throat. By adding tongues and making words hit each other he hopes to find the particle-x in languages and answer questions of cultural violence.
38adra (الهضرة) in Moroccan darija means talk.
27adra (حضرة) means procession.
1Hadra is a made up word in a limbo.
Otherwise, Salim went to the Rijksakademie (NL), has a BA in Arts and Design fro the Escola Massana and a MA in Media, Art, Design and Technology from the Frank Mohr Institute (NL). He's been nominated to the Amsterdam Prijs Voor de Kunst and the Vordemberge Gildewart Award.
About Salim's classes:
Stranger studies.Even stranger studies in postcoronial times.Data migration is easy, yours is not.The West's obsessions as a playground for us.What are we doing here?
