FACE, LES 99 NOMS DE DIEU

of FATMI Mounir

FRANCE, 1999, 00:09:24

Production : FATMI Mounir
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Allegory, Experimental, Religion, Society

Summary :
(FACE, the 99 different names of God) As religion forbids any representation of God, muslin art has never created any image of Him. He is mentioned in the Koran under 99 names such as the Superb, the Creator, the Shaper or the Whole and the One That Compels. In this video, the spectators are faced with these names which appear one after the other. So, eventually, each one of them ends up imagining God through an image. The vividness of such an image is far more powerful than if some picture of God had been actually provided. Each one can imagine God in his own different way.