Kader Attia b. 1970
Inspiration/Conversation (2010)
Inspiration/Conversation,” shows two black men, face to face, blowing into an empty plastic bottle. “It was the sound of all of Africa wheezing,” Marcel Brient, a French art collector, said in an interview. “Kader’s work fits in the tradition of minimal, conceptual work, but with a French touch that is both tender and rigid.”