Fantaisie finale is the result of a project led by Tarek Lakhrissi with students from two secondary schools in the Paris region. It brings together poems, texts and photographs by the artist, as well as images from videos made by the teenagers during three months of workshops held from February to April 2019 at the schools, as well as at Cneai in Pantin and La Galerie in Noisy-le-Sec, where Tarek Lakhrissi’s first solo exhibition, Caméléon Club, was also held.

Tarek Lakhrissi’s first artist’s book.
“Habibi, how many images do you exist from?” writes Tarek Lakhrissi in the second text of Fantaisie finale, “Blouse bleue”. The need to recognize oneself in images is crucial; here, it’s a question of telling oneself from them.

The present edition is the result of a project led by Tarek Lakhrissi with students from two secondary schools in the Paris region, the Microlycée de Sénart and the Lycée Général Guillaume Apollinaire in Thiais. It brings together poems, texts and photographs by the artist, and images from videos that the teenagers produced during three months of workshops from February to April 2019. Also in “Blouse bleue”, we read: “I arranged lots of talismans, fatma hands, Egyptian eternity crosses on my bedroom wall.”
The vignettes from the videos produced during the workshops, placed at the heart of the text, can be seen here as talismans, images invested with faith in the potential modification of our relationship to normative identities through the shared experience of empouvoirement through self-narrative.

Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault) is an artist based in Paris. He uses performance, installation, video and poetry to explore the codification of language and affect through a fictional approach.