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Ībdessemed's life-size sculptural variations of iconic images, such as the nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc (nicknamed 'the Napalm Girl') running away naked from an explosion throughout the Vietnam War in 1972 or the French football player Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi during the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final ( Headbutt) are only two examples of how the immediacy of such moments take on fresh meaning when solidified in a form designed to make them still and everlasting. Adel Abdessemed stated about his work «I think my work is actually positive. There is little point in trying to tackle brutality by denouncing it via a series of trite statements or graphic imagery. If the collapse of the machine and the first Big War at the beginning of the 20th Century contributed in no small part to the establishment of an art that was suddenly provoking and difficult to look at, the availability of images from the war front in the 1990s made the same process impossible.

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Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. He met his wife in a bar in Lyon called L'Antidote in the mid-1990s, an episode represented in the small replica of the venue in a vitrine in the exhibition at MAC in Lyon. After spending some time in Berlin, he returned in 2004 to Paris. In 2000–2001 he was a resident artist at P.S.1 in New York. He then lived and worked in the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. īetween 19, Abdessemed attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon, in eastern central France. He then studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Algiers.

He grew up in the area of the Aurès Mountains, and attended the École régionale des beaux-arts in Batna. Biography Ībdessemed was born in 1971 in Constantine, in eastern Algeria, to a Chaoui Berber family.

Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation, performance, sculpture and video.

Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist.