Allow Me to Forget
Berirouche Feddal
11/11/2026 - 23/11/2026
11/11/2026 - 23/11/2026
COMEDY OF MENACE is thrilled to announce Allow Me To Forget, a solo exhibition featuring Berirouche Feddal at Broncko Bianchi. The exhibition opens on the 11th of November, Remembrance Day, from 5-9pm, and will be open by appointment until the 23rd of November. The opening night is accompanied by a performance, Marlboro Red and Gold, featuring the artist and Iris Guerchouh. Realized in collaboration with McBride Contemporain, Montreal, this marks Feddal's first solo exhibition in London. Before anything else, Feddal is a smuggler. Richly seductive chromatics and constant interplays with layering as both an additive and subtractive process, allows the artist to lace his works with subtle signification and reference. What first draws the eye as pleasant turns out to hold violence and grotesquerie - adjusting to the image plane, fields of abstraction hold bodies distorted, torn or devoured by the act of depiction itself. Archival war photography, Goya's The Disasters of War and Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others combine into a potent anamnesis, an altar to the nameless, uncountable victims of History. What we flinch to look at here slides ever so gently into view. No way back. Berirouche Feddal (b. 1996, Rouiba, Algeria) grew up between Algiers and Irdjen, his family's village in Kabylia, before moving to Montréal at the age of ten. He lives and works between London, Montréal and Algiers. He holds a BFA with distinction from Concordia University, Montréal (2020), and is currently completing an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work has been presented at Manif d'art – The Québec City Biennial and the Musée d'art de Joliette (2026); the Dak'Art OFF programme of the Dakar Biennale, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, and Afternoon Projects, Vancouver (2022); and La Conserverie, Marrakech (2019). Solo exhibitions include Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (2025); McBride Contemporain, Montréal, Centre d'exposition L'Imagier, Gatineau, and Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montréal (2024); and Maison des arts de Laval and Conseil des arts de Montréal (2022). Nominated for the Prix Monique-et-Robert-Parizeau (Musée d'art de Joliette, 2023), he has been artist in residence at Centre SAGAMIE, Alma (2025), DRAC – Art actuel, Drummondville (2024) and the New York Crit Club, Brooklyn (2023). In October 2026 he presented the lecture-performance An Appetite for Imperialism at ASIA NOW, Monnaie de Paris, within I Open My Mouth and Speak Art, the Punk Orientalism Studio programme curated by Sara Raza, alongside Babi Badalov, Kimsooja and Marco Scotini. He is the artistic director of Queen of Birds, a documentary on the Algerian artist Baya (Fatma Haddad, 1931–1998), filmed in Algeria (2026), and will be artist in residence at Jidar Gallery, Algiers, in December 2026. His work has been featured in Le Devoir, La Presse, Vie des arts and Esse arts + opinions, and on The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery's podcast IN/TENSION, Toronto.
COMEDY OF MENACE is thrilled to announce Allow Me To Forget, a solo exhibition featuring Berirouche Feddal at Broncko Bianchi. The exhibition opens on the 11th of November, Remembrance Day, from 5-9pm, and will be open by appointment until the 23rd of November. The opening night is accompanied by a performance, Marlboro Red and Gold, featuring the artist and Iris Guerchouh. Realized in collaboration with McBride Contemporain, Montreal, this marks Feddal's first solo exhibition in London. Before anything else, Feddal is a smuggler. Richly seductive chromatics and constant interplays with layering as both an additive and subtractive process, allows the artist to lace his works with subtle signification and reference. What first draws the eye as pleasant turns out to hold violence and grotesquerie - adjusting to the image plane, fields of abstraction hold bodies distorted, torn or devoured by the act of depiction itself. Archival war photography, Goya's The Disasters of War and Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others combine into a potent anamnesis, an altar to the nameless, uncountable victims of History. What we flinch to look at here slides ever so gently into view. No way back. Berirouche Feddal (b. 1996, Rouiba, Algeria) grew up between Algiers and Irdjen, his family's village in Kabylia, before moving to Montréal at the age of ten. He lives and works between London, Montréal and Algiers. He holds a BFA with distinction from Concordia University, Montréal (2020), and is currently completing an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work has been presented at Manif d'art – The Québec City Biennial and the Musée d'art de Joliette (2026); the Dak'Art OFF programme of the Dakar Biennale, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, and Afternoon Projects, Vancouver (2022); and La Conserverie, Marrakech (2019). Solo exhibitions include Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (2025); McBride Contemporain, Montréal, Centre d'exposition L'Imagier, Gatineau, and Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montréal (2024); and Maison des arts de Laval and Conseil des arts de Montréal (2022). Nominated for the Prix Monique-et-Robert-Parizeau (Musée d'art de Joliette, 2023), he has been artist in residence at Centre SAGAMIE, Alma (2025), DRAC – Art actuel, Drummondville (2024) and the New York Crit Club, Brooklyn (2023). In October 2026 he presented the lecture-performance An Appetite for Imperialism at ASIA NOW, Monnaie de Paris, within I Open My Mouth and Speak Art, the Punk Orientalism Studio programme curated by Sara Raza, alongside Babi Badalov, Kimsooja and Marco Scotini. He is the artistic director of Queen of Birds, a documentary on the Algerian artist Baya (Fatma Haddad, 1931–1998), filmed in Algeria (2026), and will be artist in residence at Jidar Gallery, Algiers, in December 2026. His work has been featured in Le Devoir, La Presse, Vie des arts and Esse arts + opinions, and on The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery's podcast IN/TENSION, Toronto.