“My horizon is always a positive one. It is the situation of the world that is full of dangers and promises,” Adel Abdessemed tells me when I ask him about the violence that often permeates his work. One could be forgiven for thinking he is preoccupied by it; he doesn’t shy away from subjects of cruelty and despair. His current show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, entitled Conflict, presents 31 foreboding black chalk drawings of life-size military figures with…
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