Carrefour
dal 16/7/2015 al 3/10/2015
Segnalato da
Saadane Afif
Leila Alaoui
Yassine Balbzioui
Max Boufathal
Megumi Matsubara
Clara Meister
Alya Sebti
16/7/2015
Carrefour
Ifa Galerie, Berlin
The Marrakech Biennale and beyond. The exhibition investigate the notion of subjective center where different paths cross. A moment of encounter between individual trajectories, where the intersections of single practices and informal migratory lines constantly draw new routes.
Curator: Alya Sebti
Marrakech is a cultural, geographical and artistic crossroads between North and Sub-Saharan Africa, East and West. As a metaphorical centre, the city and its art biennial are the focus of the exhibition Carrefour/Meeting Point—The Marrakech Biennale and beyond at ifa Gallery Berlin.
Carrefour—a crossroad where narratives meet. Each narrative embodies an individual trajectory with its own subjective mapping and centre: that from which one speaks. How can dialogue occur when individual trajectories meet, beyond the borders of words?
This exhibition is a journey towards “other” modes of experiential and material connection. An invitation to draw porous routes and explore languages that counter the geographic and metaphorical distance that separates us. The starting point of this exhibition takes as a fictional centre the Marrakech Biennale. The curator Alya Sebti has invited participants of past editions to develop ideas and projects within a new space of encounter.
With existing works as well as commissioned projects, they have created new forms of language negotiating between alternatives forms of translation and transmission: where music becomes a unique orientation; where olfactory experience draws a conversation between poetry and fragrance; where weaving performs as a geometry lesson and shield masks open up to listen to the polyphony of voices expressed by the individual whose path reaches a crossing—Carrefour / Meeting Point.
In recent years the ifa Galleries Berlin and Stuttgart have presented various international biennials which were, like the Marrakech Biennale, supported by the ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations). The ifa is in charge of the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and as an actor in international artistic exchange, it gives impulses in the discussions about the modes of operation of art biennials.
Participating artists: Saâdane Afif, Leila Alaoui, Yassine Balbzioui, Max Boufathal, Megumi Matsubara, Clara Meister and S.T.I.F.F.
Press contact:
Miriam Kahrmann Tel. +49.711.2225.105 kahrmann@ifa.de
Inga Zoller Tel. +49.711.2225.212 zoller@ifa.de
Opening: July 17 16pm
Artist talk with Saâdane Afif, Leila Alaoui, Yassine Balbzioui, Max Boufathal, Megumi Matsubara, Clara Meister & S.T.I.F.F. and the curator Alya Sebti
Performative talk with Megumi Matsubara
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