With Louisa Babari, Fayçal Baghriche, Lounis Baouche, Hakima El Djoudi, Nawel Louerrad, Lydia Ourahmane & Yuma Burgess, Sara Sadik, Nesrine Salem, Abdo Shanan, Hichem Merouche, Dania Reymond, Djamel Tatah, Tilawin Project, Sofiane Zouggar.
Curation Natasha Marie Llorens
Conception and production Magasin CNAC
This major group exhibition presents the work of fourteen artists to take a fresh look at art in Algeria and its diaspora.
The exhibition is conceived as a response to Merzak Allouache's classic 1976 film Omar Gatlato, and aims to present artists living and working in Algeria and its diaspora on an equal footing and in a way that deconstructs visual preconceptions about Algeria and those who belong to it. As a point of departure, this epilogue uses the final scene of Allouache's film to present a perspective on the current Algerian art scene - broadly defined to include artists with a sense of belonging to Algeria.
This exhibition is the epilogue to a five-year project that has generated a succession of exhibitions, each one different, in New York in 2019, Marseille in 2021 and finally Grenoble in 2023. This epilogue aims to resonate with the possibility, the trepidation and the weight of everyday concerns summed up by this film scene, which seems analogous to the atmosphere currently reigning in Algeria and Europe. Post-Hirak, post-Covid, as the real impact of climate change is felt in a profound and lasting way, there is a sense of tense suspension that permeates everything, although daily life must go on.
