ARTISTS – SEE DJERBA

Ursula Scherrer

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 30 May 2017 11:00:22 +0000

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WORKSHOPS

HOW ARE YOU?
Exercises and performances in public space reflecting on identity.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am looking for ways to express my inner landscape in the outside world. My work is less about what one sees than about the feeling that it leaves behind. My aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media, and performance art.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Ursula Scherrer is a Swiss artist established in the US. Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography, and expanded to photography, video, text, and mixed media. She is attracted to the ephemeral nature of past experiences as well as to how present times can be interpreted through artistic media.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Sofia (bu), SOFIA UNDERGROUND Performance Art Festival
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2015 New York (us), ROULETTE
2014 Guangzhou (cn), GUANGZHOU LIVE
2013 Krems (at), KLANGRAUM
Since 1999 worldwide, regular participation in international festivals of visual art, media and light art, mainly in Switzerland, Germany and the United States

DEVELOPEMENT

1983–1988 St. Gallen (ch), THEATERTANZSCHULE

LINK

ursulascherrer.com
@ursulascherrer66

Ingo Wendt

Bettina Pelz — Mon, 29 May 2017 14:00:05 +0000

ARTWORK

mobile, kinetic light works

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Ingo Wendt’s artistic bearings are light art, architecture, and kinesis. He gets his inspiration from cultural realities, natural and urban landscapes as well as from architecture and historical places. His artworks, which often have a highly playful character, create beautiful atmospheres wherein colors become almost tactile matters. Even though this might not be his main focus, his interventions in public spaces have rarely failed to improve people’s ability to better value the urban and architectural environments they live in.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2016 Unna (de), SWITCH c/o Center for International Light Art
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2014 Saarbruecken (de), Light_Act_Project

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2010 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: Head of Light Lab
2007 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Diploma: Fine Arts
2004 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Diploma: Product Design
1994 Ludwigshafen (de), Craftmanship as Carpenter

LINK

ingo-wendt.de

Amine Ahmed

Bettina Pelz — Fri, 05 May 2017 08:31:26 +0000

ARTWORK

1-channel projection of realtime animation

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Amine Ahmed turns medical scans into artistic material.

BIO

Lives and works in Djerba.

LINKS

facebook.com: Amine Ahmed

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich.

Tom Groll + Kuno Seltmann

Bettina Pelz — Thu, 04 May 2017 11:07:13 +0000

ARTWORK

OUROBOROS
3-channel video projection

DOC

tomgroll.de: Ouroboros (2017)

SITE Fondouk

ARTIST’S STATEMENT Tom Groll

In my opinion, the positive result and impact of the INTERFERENCE festival in Tunis owed their success to powerful resonance, triggered by impulses of passion and optimism. This resonance managed to move many people and awaken their appreciation for an art form, which was previously unknown to them … a stone being thrown in to the water, the stone symbolising an impulse and the ripples the expanding resonance… I looking forward to SEE DJERBA, on our shared creative thirst, to our thirst for creative community … the driving force”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn) | INTERFERENCE

INTERFERENCE was the first public co-operation of Tom Groll and Kuno Seltmann.

LINKS

kuno.ist
tomgroll.de

PHOTOS

Kuno Seltmann, Tom Groll, Mari Lena Rapprich

joeressen+kessner

Bettina Pelz — Thu, 04 May 2017 07:33:27 +0000

ARTWORK

par hasard
1-channel video projection, 2-channel audio, computer, individual software

The French title “par hasard” refers to the Arabic term “yasara” for dicing, and is an example of the choice of therm the audio-visual composition is based on which are 15 Arabic and French terms, written and spoken. Both, audio and visual particles are animated to form a real-time environment. They are organized in groups that are linked in responding processes and that generate an endless series of variations in the present tense. The digital interaction is furthered through the application onto the architectural scape.

DOC

joeressenkessner.de: par hasard

SITE Fondouk Ben Ghorbel

Fondouk Ben Ghorbel was found in the 17th century. Like many other, Fondouk Ben Ghorbel is a historical monument that served as a meeting point for commercial exchange and hosting sellers and traders who would gather from different countries, cultures, and religions in order to sell, buy, and exchange commodities from each other. The place kept its initial shape and still hosts workshops and shops.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Eva-Maria Joeressen and Klaus Kessner focus on transmedia interventions. They collect and analyze light and sound, spatial and temporal qualities of a chosen space. Reflecting on the dynamics of appearance and semantics, they contrast their findings with cultural-historical observations and associations. In their artistic research, they engender frameworks for audiovisual compositions and process them as a kind of dynamic archives. Their works are based on audio and visual instructions for a computer. Projected into an architectural environment, they engender a performative interplay of the artistic archive and the found space.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Eva-Maria Joeressen | DEVELOPMENT

Klaus Kessner | DEVELOPMENT

Since 1992 | Regular performing activities with electronic audio-visual compositions
Studies in Music, Musicology and German language
More

LINKS

joeressenkessner.de
vimeo.com: joeressen+kessner

PHOTOS

joeressen+kessner, Constanze Flamme

Annika Hippler

Bettina Pelz — Wed, 03 May 2017 07:36:18 +0000

ARTWORK

Paper, fluorescent colors, laser

ARTISTIC APPROACH

In her light installations, Annika Hippler displays light as an ephemeral material as well as a tool for drawing, painting, sculpturing, and creating site-specific artworks. Meticulously combining lasers with water and other mediums, subtle coupling and resonances are developed through reverberations, unveiling matter in its purest form, giving shapes and colors natural poetry. In her luminograms, Annika Hippler records the impact of light on canvas.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPMENT

LINKS

annika-hippler.net
vimeo.com: Annika Hippler

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich

Martina Tritthart

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:49:18 +0000

WORKSHOP

CAMERA OBSCURA
Building a camera obscura with local materials.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Trained as an architect Martina Tritthart has a particular interest in visual perception and spatial experience. She finished her PHD in architecture on “Light Spaces – Spatial Models of Perception”. As an artist she is using various materials and media focusing on light and space. Her installations want to trigger the imagination of the viewer, who are furthermore invited to become participants of the artwork.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am curious to SEE Djerba and learn from Djerba, to get closer to the artists community, to talk about the practice of light, the experience of architecture, as well as the construction and history of culture and art.

DEVELOPMENT
2016 PHD Architecture University of Technology | Graz (at)
Since 2003 | Lecturer at University of Technology Graz, University of Applied Science FH Joanneum Graz and University of Applied Science FH | Burgenland (at)
2003 – 2005 | Assistant professor at University of Art and Design Linz | space & design strategies (at)
2001 | Together with Roman Bönsch first prize and realization (permanent) lighting design of the facade WUK | Vienna (at)
1999 – 2003 | Assistant professor at University of Technology Graz | Architecture (at)
1996 | Degree in Architecture | TU Graz (at)
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LINKS

Martina Tritthart | Web

Mari Lena Rapprich

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:43:59 +0000

ARTWORK

set of objects, made of glass, soot, fluorescent tube, 1-channel projection

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Mari Lena Rapprich works with text in analog and digital animation to explore transmedia approaches.

EXHIBITIONS

2015 | Hildesheim [de], LICHTUNGEN Internationales Licht Kunst Projekt
2015 | Tunis [tn] | Goethe-Institute, FLUX

FORMATION

2015 | Bremen [de], University of the Arts, Mentoring-Program
2011-2017 Bremen [de], University of the Arts, Degree in Liberal Art

LINKS

klasse-katrinvonmaltzahn.de: Mari Lena Rapprich

PHOTOS

Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Mari Lena Rapprich

Robert Sochacki

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:28:32 +0000

ARTWORK

multi-channel projection of a site-specific collage

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I need to experience the world and communicate with people to create my artworks, that are usually set up in public spaces. My aim is to give way to the places and people that will interfere and communicate and give their own meaning to my art. SEE DJERBA is a project that works perfectly for me – it will give me the unique experience of living and working in a different cultural environment and I will have a chance to contribute my work and art to the local community. I think it is also important to see this project in a complex sociological and political perspective; as an artist from Poland it is important for me to show values essential not only in art but also in life – freedom and tolerance.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Robert Sochacki has been related to painting since his early days as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, later as a set designer in a theatre and finally as a video performer / interactive artist. Nowadays he is a fellow in the painting department of Gdańsk’s Academy, and he finishes working on his PhD concerning art in public spaces. His projects were supported by polish Ministry of Culture and National Hertiage. He calls his works ”video paintings” and usually presents them as large-format projections. His video arts were showed and awarded multiple times – from independent art galleries, throughout many art shows in Poland and around the World, up to music and street art festivals. His paintings, installations and prints are usually a complex and multi-layered story about the world around.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPMENT

1991-1997 | Gdańsk (pl) | Academy of Fine Arts

LINKS

robertsochacki.pl

PHOTOS

Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Zied Hadded, Chahine Mahdhi

Xenorama

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:38:36 +0000

ARTWORK

Site-specific mapping, multi-channel projection, audio-visual composition

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

We already participated at last years edition of the INTERFERENCE Festival in Tunis and where overwhelmed by the atmosphere and potential of the festival. Through our diverse interests and backgrounds we are always curious and open for international collaborations and influences and hope to help to establish and foster intercultural exchange through the means of art, technology and light.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

We are united by the fascination to use technology to create magic. We combine expertise in the fields of design, animation, programming, sound design and composition and specialize in immersive experiences, interactive installations and light projection shows.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

LINKS

xenorama.com
facebook.com: Xenorama
vimeo.co: Xenorama

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich, Chahine Mahdhi, Xenorama

Kurt Laurenz Theinert

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:38:00 +0000

WORKSHOP

RGB
Experimenting with the appearance and disappearance of colors in interaction with colored light.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Beauty, in my eyes, is highly underestimated in the arts nowadays. Beyond, above, or wherever content and messages there is a wide field of joy through beauty that everybody enjoys no matter what age, what cultural background, or what education we have. This uniting power is very often neglected and covered by messages and narrative content. In my work, I try to explore this power connected to the aspects of light. Individual perception is the starting point for my light art works. To have it as pure as possible I try to avoid any narrative content. Aspects of everyday perception become aware of the changes in time and people can enjoy the perception of their own perception.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPMENT

1985-1992 | Stuttgart (de), State Academy of Fine Arts, Studies of Design

LINKS

theinert-lichtkunst.de
vimdeo.com: Kurt Laurenz Theinert

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich

RaumZeitPiraten

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:37:26 +0000

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The term public space sounds like an unfulfilled promise. Restrictive forces seem to work against what could be a sphere of interaction and free communication for a community and all its inhabitants. We just do not know what the public and its places are capable of, that’s why we want to interact and learn about.

ARTISTIC APPROACH
RaumZeitPiraten (Tobias Daemgen, Jan Ehlen, Moritz Ellerich) are a space and time bending artists collective. Since 2007 they create site-specific, performative installations as ephemeral models of imperfect mensch-maschine counter worlds questioning calculated realities, scientific accurateness and anorganic, machine dominated behaviour. With custom-built opto-acoustic instruments they are misusing and remixing ancient and up-to-date auditive and visual technologies for heterogeneous, organically improvised light and sound architectures. Their activities are aimed at playful, experimental connections of sound, image, object, space and time to an alternately-self-expanding-multimedia-performance-surround-spaceship-laboratory-travel to somewhere between science and fiction.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Rome (it) | Media Art Festival
2017 Krefeld (de) | Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
2017 Aberdeen (uk) | SPECTRA
2017 Hildesheim (de), LICHTCAMPUS
2016 Tunis (tn) | INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2016 Cascais (pt), LUMINA

LINKS

raumzeitpiraten.com
vimeo.com: RaumZeitPiraten

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich.

Lena Weisner

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:36:59 +0000

ARTWORK

Site-specific intervention, green laser, locally found glass object, wind

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I always look forward to exploring a new part of the world. Getting to know the culture and the people through an art project like this, is the most beautiful way to connect with a place and its people. SEE Djerba will bring different people together who are driven by a passion about light, like me. I look forward to two exciting weeks in Djerba!

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2013 | Hildesheim (de) | University of Applied Art and Science (HAWK) | Studies of Lighting Design

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich, Ursula Scherrer, Lena Weisner

Liubov Moskvina

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:36:45 +0000

ARTWORK

DRIFT
Material: 119 Silk threads, red
Light: Line Laser, Class 2, 635nm (red), 4×1,5 V

Seemingly fluent and slowly floating red lines appear in the dark space of an old weaving workshop. A subtle and thinly visible cascade of 119 silk threads in the projection of red laser light interplays with the wind blowing into the building. Relating to each change of wind environment outside of the workshop, the drifting curtain manifests itself and in the next moment disappears hurriedly in the deepness of space. Take a photo, if you want catch the game of red lines! Then, at this moment you will find a true story about the forgotten place, lost tradition, dusted machines, and unopened mails. In one of the oldest existing weaving workshops in Djerba, I reflect on the history of the old tradition of weaving under environmental aspects of modern time. Being for many years closed, I tried to re-organize the point of view on forgotten places and their lost tradition and tried to recall the rich potential of such places in the whole country. The development of the Artwork was of an explorative nature. I found fascinating stories about the island and the people living here. Each story is for me always a process and like a growing story in reality I like to implement such uncontrollable elements as the wind into my works. From this moment on the artwork starts to live its own life.

SITE

Weaving Workshop, named “Hanout Laaouina” Houmt Souk, Djerba.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Light is the biggest mystery I met in my life. So elementary and at the same time so hard to catch. What is it, a phenomenon of light? I try to find a wide understanding of Light as a term and vision, it’s relation to life and human being. Reflecting on the complexity of light I try to express its simplicity in my artworks.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2016 Artist and Lighting Designer
2016 Hildesheim (de) | University of Applied Art and Science (HAWK), MA Lighting Design
2010 | Braunschweig (de) | University of the Art, BA Communication Design

ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

As I was asked by Bettina Pelz and Aymen Gharbi to participate in SEE DJERBA project and to create a new work for public space in Djerba, I was excited to have a chance to work in such a multi-layered format. The aim was not only to create a new site-specific Artwork, it was a great opportunity to work with and in context-based environments, such as the cultural and historical heritage of the island or thru our cross-cultural and international group. Within one week and for the first time in Djerba, I had a chance to explore its deeper vision and to light on its spirit, which you may hardly discover with such intensity as an outstanding person. From the first moment on, I felt welcome and belonging to the place, and SEE DJERBA Team and the other artists. Our talk-rounds and discussions on the main topic helped me to reflect on my own practice and explore new ways to understand the subject of light in a wider sense. It was an intensive and inspiring time to look on the island from different shapes. I will never forget its friendly atmosphere by the local community, unique nature, and, especially the colors of the Djerbian sun. I could learn a lot from Djerbian’s rich culture and I liked our open dialog. I think the success of the project has been not made only by good results, but by integrating transcultural processes as well. I think SEE Djerba was a good format for growing up for new processes in the local environment and needs to be sustained for the future development of the island.

PHOTOS

Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Liubov Moskvina, Sam Saidiani

Jihen Ben Chikha

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:35:16 +0000

ARTWORK

audio micro-sensor, Arduino board, 6 light bulbs, suspended from a metal structure found onsite

ARTISTIC APPROACH

The responsive intervention asks visitors to “leave your message” which is transcoded into a light play.

SITE

Place Sidi Abdelkader

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

The bulbs act as a visual metaphor. This work is based on the misappropriation of our senses, by evoking them, questioning them, and putting them on first. Make the senses the equivalent of a material. The voices and noises are now transformed into code and the luminous noises are simulated. The light evokes not ears but eyes, eyes that touch and hear. This cycle can be defined as a round trip of spectator’s presence, and in this way how the sources of light belong to the artwork and either to the spectator. This installation becomes an “operator of sense“, following an expression of Jacques Aumont. This means that the work is auto-exposing, auto-present, and auto-generating.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Sousse | Elbirou Art Gallery

DEVELOPMENT

2017 Sousse | Institute of Fine Arts | MA
2016 Sousse | Institute of Fine Arts | BA
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ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

Djerba was an inspiring place to work in and to question all its historical, abandoned places and corner, and to get in contact with some Djerbian people knowing and learning from them their stories and traditions. SEE DJERBA was a success for all of us, ten days passed away but we kept the wonderful moments, even if we have been through stressful and difficult moments. For me, it was great to work at “Place Sidi Abdelkader” which has been a coffee shop before. I was intrigued by the idea that the place was a place where people used to meet, drink, play cards, and talk. For a while, it has been an abandoned place. It brought the idea to work on “collective memory” to revive this place in a different context. I made a box where people could leave a message. When talking to the box, the lighting of the space started to change. I was excited about people leaving messages about their life, dreams, hopes, and others start to singing, yelling. And this is what interested me the most, the idea about connection, and interaction between people and the artwork.

VIDEO

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich

Sara Foerster

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:22:57 +0000

ARTWORK

LUMINOUS VANISHING
1-channel side projection, manipulated historic slides

The starting point for my artwork “Luminous Vanishing” were old slides that I found. These slides were photographed by a German couple traveling to Djerba and Tunis during the 1970s. During my stay in Houmt Souk, I started to modify the picture. physically and irreversible. I wanted to leave traces, erase memories, and look for what might be hidden in the material.

SEE DJERBA SITE Fondouk Batista

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

For SEE DJERBA, I was able to participate as an artist. During the week I was free to explore the new surrounding, meeting new people, and starting to work on my own project. The week I had (only the one before the festival) was too short for all the possibilities which were offered (talks, workshops, etc.). My intent was to realize a site-specific work in Djerba that reflects my impressions of exploring a new and unfamiliar space. During my stay I started a new way for me to work with the found photographic material, furthermore, it is my first work with a diascope.

In the past two years, I have had the opportunity to visit Tunisia several times, working there as an artist and exhibiting my artworks. With the exhibition project FLUX at the Goethe-Institute Tunis in 2015, I learned how energetic and positive co-operation with Tunisians can be. My intent was to discover a place with my artistic view, to implement it in my work and to present it in the public space.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

DEVELOPEMENT

LINKS

sarafoerster.de

PHOTOS

Sara Foerster

Mariandreina Baasch

Bettina Pelz — Tue, 02 May 2017 07:22:39 +0000

ARTIST’S STATEMENT :
Last year Bettina and Aymen told me about the great art festival they made in Tunes, which reminded me about the initiatives I had made in my homeland, Venezuela. I got excited just by hearing them talking, it felt really familiar. Now, I was told that this second experience exists due the motivation of the people and that the idea is to offer an alternative cultural place for and with Tunisians in Djerba. No further words needed to be said for me to accept this incredible -personal- challenge, were I would not get to be in the organizing team, but instead I will be in the artistic group. To Djerba I am bringing my energy, my -short- experience as an architect and my spirit as an activist, in order to interact with this new context. In this exchange experience I am hopping to leave one ephemeral part of me in Djerba and in my new colleagues; I will take home the conceptual challenges and learnings of this cultural space.

ARTISTIC APPROACH
After graduating from the architecture school in 2011, Mariandreina Baasch has been working on different projects that open a space for dialogue in the society. The idea is using art in public spaces to express -freely- the socio-political problems of Venezuela.

LINKS
Mariandreina Baasch

Hartung | Trenz

Bettina Pelz — Mon, 01 May 2017 00:59:07 +0000

ARTWORK

DECODING (Djerba 2017)
1-channel architecture projection

The work is based on the text of the new constitution of Tunisia from 2014, which is considered one of the most progressive in the world. The French version of the text is transferred into the computer code “base64” and the visual output was used as a base of the main animation. Occasionally, selected Arabic phrases are included. The color concept responds to the colors red and white as the main colors of the Tunisian flag. The animation treats the text as a living organism.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

For more than twenty years Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz have been working with architectural interventions with typography. In their spatial projections, they explore the relationship among text, image, public space, light and sensory perception. With their textual projections they have animated buildings such as churches, theaters and galleries. Their facades or interiors appear to be set in constant transformation due to the interaction of the projected content, the architectural structures and the viewers’ position.

ARTISITS’ STATEMENT

Although I can’t be physically in Djerba this year due to a health problem I want to be part of this wonderful project which is in my eyes a great opportunity to continue the efforts which started two years ago in Tunis at the Goethe-Institute and were followed by INTERFERENCE in the Medina of Tunis in 2016. I was really deeply touched by the hospitality and openness of the new colleagues and friends. For us as artists, projected text is a possibility to discover and react to an unknown place. Let’s continue this dialogue by the means of light!

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Detlef Hartung | DEVELOPMENT

Georg Trenz | DEVELOPMENT

LINKS

hartung-trenz.de

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich, Sam Saidiani

Houda Ghorbel + Wadi Mhiri

Bettina Pelz — Mon, 01 May 2017 00:33:52 +0000

ARTWORK

WE PROMISE YOU
white textile thread, glue, uv-light

The artwork is made of white threads illuminated by uv-light. The threaded structure is applied to the wooden structure of the former salt storage. From only one perspective the Arabic text can be read, when moving through space, the word is bend and distorted, losing its readability. The message of the installation is addressed to politicians and their demagogic discourses, which, as an anamorphosis, from an angle of view appear clear and promising, but quickly lose all their senses as soon as one turns away. Then by discovering the work, the visitor is invited to look for the location of visibility, to observe the message, and to decipher it.

SITE Mediterranean Cultural Center

The storage building dates back to 1908 and served as a public treasure in Houmt Souk.

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

The island of Djerba, by its urban and natural landscape, inspires us and allows us to dream. SEE DJERBA is an opening toward new adventures for us, with a serious and qualified team. It’s also a unique moment of exchange and complicity shared between artists, accomplices, coaches, visitors, and future colleagues, in order to take part “perhaps” in the construction of a better world.

We always start our building process from a space and the association it allows, we are guided by our ideas and we build by experiencing the impact of our interventions. Our projects have in common that they address the human body as the storage of experience as well as the collective memory and its shaping. We are interested in the interplay of the individuum and the collective, we reflect on the dynamics of individual and collective identities and their impact on religious and political culture.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Their passion and commitment is their poetic vector. Houda Ghorbel and Wadi Mhiri are conceptual artists and work transdisciplinary with ceramics, photography, performance, light, installation, and interventions among others. Their concepts are reflecting on societal questions with strong links to sociocultural developments.

ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

We already took part in INTERFERENCE, and it was a great experience. After being asked by Aymen and Bettina to participate in SEE DJERBA, we were excited and immediately started thinking and creating. It was not our first time in Djerba, but the first time to work there, and the first time we find ourselves in this cross-cultural and international group. In the beginning, we felt lost, finding a site was not so easy and our quest took a big part of our stay. We found different inspiring spaces but with a big constraint until we visited the old storage in the Mediterranean Cultural Center and fell in love. It was the perfect space at the right moment. During our stay, we met new people, had deep discussions with different interesting persons, the time spent there was enriching and we made a lot of new friends, networks … The local community was friendly, welcoming and as soon as we arrived we felt home. We loved the atmosphere and ambiance. The shared catering was a great chance for meeting, exchanging, and becoming friends. The good vibes were everywhere. We think that SEE DJERBA was an opportunity to share, enrich, and create in an environment full of positive energy. The community was impressive, the volunteers were very engaged. SEE DJERBA brought light to the island. We hope to see this energy in the future.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

LINKS

houdaghorbelwadimhiri.com
vimeo.com: Houda Ghorbel + Wadi Mhiri

PHOTOS

Ghorbel + Mhiri