📣On a Rock a Brief, Circle of Sun continues on view at Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis. Solo exhibition by Massinissa Selmani Curated by Roger Malbert In collaboration with musician Yosvany Terry “Selmani’s absurdist humour is most apparent in his animations, where a single flickering action is gently repeated in a cycle of quiet futility. The artist cites as an inspiration the Belgian surrealist poet Paul Nougé, who in a series of enigmatic photographs taken in 1930, first published posthumously in 1968 in a book titled ‘The Subversion of Images’, represented mysterious actions, ‘actions carried out on an object’ by the ‘suppression’ or ‘modification’ of that object – for example two men seeming to clink glasses but with their hands empty, a group of people gathered in a room staring transfixed at a blank wall. Selmani’s suppression of the object or surrounding context similarly renders the familiar strange, mundane actions inexplicable.”