The Artists Collection : Joseph Dadoune

Summary of Joseph Dadoune's artistic approach

Joseph Dadoune, born April 24, 1975 in Nice, is a European artist who works at the confluence of video, photography, performance, drawing, architecture and social action. In his work, Joseph Dadoune is interested in the tensions that exist between East and West, between religious life and secular life, between central power and periphery, between real and imaginary. Her works also resonate with colonial issues and questions of gender and identity.

Artistic career

After a childhood that took him from Nice to Ofaqim, Joseph Dadoune became known in the early 2000s in France and Israel thanks to his film “Sion” (2006-2007), produced with the support and participation of the Louvre museum with actress Ronit Elkabetz.

In 2008, he developed a series of works entitled “In the Desert” which focuses on the development city Ofaqim in its economic, social and cultural reality. As part of this project, Dadoune produces films, collects archival documents, initiates guided tours, invites journalists and strives to mobilize as many people as possible to deliver Ofaqim from its “non-” status. place". From 2010 he devoted himself to drawing and created monumental surfaces covered with an opaque black tar, which he mixed with different objects and materials. Some of these tars have been exhibited at the Ricard Foundation in Paris and at the Petach Tikva Museum.

Among his other outstanding works, we will notably remember “Impossible calendars” (2013) exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum during the celebration of the centenary of the Dada movement; “Protective barrier” (2017), a set of autobiographical war drawings, brought together in a publication by Éditions Arnaud Bizalion.

In 2017, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and in July of the same year, his project “An Arab Spring” (233 photos and 17 videos) was chosen to integrate the collections of the Center Pompidou. In October 2017, he was the guest artist of the city of Versailles for the Night of Creation where he presented a large selection of his works under the title "Sillons".

In 2018, he won the Renée and Léonce Bernheim Foundation Prize. and he participates in the exhibition "To the End of Land" at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.

In 2019 two tars are selected in the exhibition "Naked Soul: Chaïm Soutine" at the Ein Harod Museum in Israel. In 2020, he published his book of drawings “Fresh Light” accompanied by the text by Donatien Grau, published by Arnaud Bizalion. In 2021, Galerie Le Minotaure and Galerie Alain le Gaillard in Paris present the exhibition "IncarnaSion". This catalog is published on this occasion.

Joseph Dadoune has participated in more than 200 personal and group exhibitions. His work has been shown in particular at the FIAC (Paris, at the Espace Richaud (Versailles), at the Petach Tikva Museum, at the Plateau / FRAC Ile de France, at the Tel Aviv museum of Art, at the Ricard Foundation (Paris) and at the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) His videos have been screened at the Hunting and Nature Museum, the Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, the White Box and the Palais de Tokyo.

The works of Joseph Dadoune can be found at the Center Georges Pompidou, the Louvre Museum, the FNAC in Paris, the FRAC Normandie Rouen, the Israel Museum and the Petach Tikva Museum.