This installation at the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, by the French artist Mohamed Bourousissa, grew out of his time with the Fletcher Street Riding Club, one of the few black, urban stables in the United States. The panels, printed on European car parts, feature the people and scenes in the documentary that accompanies the show. It’s as if the practice of collage had been reborn, with 3D figures advancing on and receding from the viewer’s field of vision, but none of the fields are flat or square, so that images and scenes seem to roll into one another, or perhaps “gallop” is a better word. One wants to see what Bourousissa has done, or will do, working from his native Parisian banlieue.
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