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Over a number of years now, Neïl Beloufa has been developing a body of work that interrogates and frustrates our modern systems of representation. In his repurposing of a Nespresso coffee machine, Beloufa captures a fragment of modern life in this misleading trace of the present. Whether it is taken as a simple objet d’art or as a symbol of the artist’s daily ‘coffee-and-cigarette’ ritual, the coffee machine—which is not what it used to be—can be interpreted on a number of levels. Bronze, monochrome, zoological ornaments defy the viewer’s gaze and invite her to observe all the semantic possibilities of the piece. In its refusal of dichotomy and black-and-white interpretations, such a gesture both illustrates and animates the work of Neïl Beloufa.
Lives and works in Paris, France