Kader Attir - The Repair Project

“Re-appropriation is a process of repair. I understand repair as reconstruction in an extended sense, and thus as a kind of tool which can be applied to political, cultural and scientific topics to examine their various interactions.”
Kader Attir speaking in 2010


Kader Attir is a french artist who grew up around areas of conflict and uses this for inspiration. In 2010, he undertook 'The Repair Project' in which he used 'exaggerated' mending and re-appropriation in order to create sculptures that reflect upon times of war, conflict and suffering. In doing this his sculptures took on a new light of their own.

The sculptures were often paired with original inspiration images in order to contextualise the sculpture to its original meaning.

The idea of 'mending' in the sense of creating a new object is what drew me to this artist. I like how sculpture has taken a new light yet also keeping context. Attir is making something beautiful out of something that is broken.