This publication was made on the occasion of the solo exhibition While the Storm Arrives at the Es Baluard Museum in Palma, by moroccan artist mounir fatmi, from March 17th to June 19th, 2022.

“In this exhibition, fatmi explores the emergence of all these accounts and commentaries we increasingly have to bear physically and intellectually violent narratives that have marked our past and are now shaping our future.

Around the large central installation Inside the Fire Circle 02 (2017-2022), the artist forges a metaphor of the construction of history, the factors conditioning it, the interests governing it and the grasping tentacles sent out by the dominant power, while still leaving a chink of hope that this hamstrung, unhinged and indolent society might somehow rouse itself to search for change that has never been needed so urgently.”