Soleïman Badat
Born in 1974
Lives and works in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
![](https://reseau-dda.org/media/pages/artists/soleiman-badat/2165c61b86-1693826863/soleiman-badat-04-5561-1280x960-q75.jpg)
![](https://reseau-dda.org/media/pages/artists/soleiman-badat/eaa477e938-1693827275/r-xkill-me-im-dead-one-mpg-3054-still001-5564-1280x960-q75.jpg)
![](https://reseau-dda.org/media/pages/artists/soleiman-badat/2d1ead64e8-1693896914/786-fate-720-2006-2022-mp4-535-still001-5566-1280x960-q75.jpg)
![](https://reseau-dda.org/media/pages/artists/soleiman-badat/da10d6d2d4-1693917308/dr008-legout-des-autres-5569-1280x960-q75.jpg)
Soleïman Badat’s plastic compositions are elastic and modular. His drawings and paintings use dark humour, while his photographic and videographic work adopts a more documentary posture that takes a critical look at what constitutes an event and therefore impacts our understanding of the world. His experimental research brings about a multitude of raw materials, which the artist delves into, arranges and mixes to generate “glitches” – parasites that infiltrate sound and image until the information they convey becomes “gritty” – and in doing so gives rise through its very substance to controversial and harsh subjects. Balanced between a degree of dreamy and contemplative optimism and a pragmatic awareness of their natural, societal, economic and political surroundings, Soleïman Badat’s works constantly oscillate between forms that are both resilient and chaotic, or enchanted and degenerative, and implicitly encourage a form of revolt.
Leïla Quillacq, 2020
© Adagp, Paris