6/4/2023 0 Comments Al vernissageBeijing BOOK YOUR VISITĭashanzi Art District 798 #8503, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst. It is possible to schedule your visit please send us an e-mail at or book via the form by selecting ' book your visit'. Closed on National Holidays and on January 31st. +39 0577 Continua's space in San Gimignano is open from Monday to Sunday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-7pm. Bayt Al Fenn builds on this tradition, providing young artists with a platform and promoting the values of diversity and inclusion.īayt Al Fenn’s 2022 edition “Chkoun Ana?” will remain digitally accessible to visitors under You can also follow Bayt Al Fenn on Instagram and Facebook, check out past editions or suggest a theme for 2023.Tel. Music festivals exist aplenty and old medinas are nowadays full of street art murals. Today, traditional disciplines like painting, music or architecture co-exist productively with modern expressions like rap, graffiti or poetry slam in the Moroccan art scene. Handicraft and artwork have been constituting Moroccan culture for centuries and are being appreciated globally. If there were such a universally spoken language, it might be art. Darija (Moroccan Arabic), Classical Arabic, Tamazigh (Berber), French and even Spanish and English work until some extent, but no single language is the key to the Kingdom. Art is always a powerful language, but in Morocco even more so. These are just three out of eleven examples of how emerging Moroccan artists responded to the question of “Who am I?”. The final frame pictures a drop of blood on a napkin, leaving little margin for interpretation to the observer. Multi-talented Anass Doujdid contributed an element of entertainment and surprise with his stop-motion video, which recounts all the ceremonial elements and stages of a Moroccan wedding using only traditional items found on a local market. Plastic artist Aicha Abou created one of the flashiest and definitively the heaviest art piece, a colourful sculpture of a Berber woman, displaying traditional Berber tattoos, evoking the self-confidence, independence and power of women in traditional Berber societies. They were likely to draw a similar conclusion than the artist himself: “Differences do not spoil conviviality”. Visual artist Ilyesse Nouhi captured the plurality of lifestyles in Morocco by creating a rotatable, wheel-shaped collage, which has so much detail in it, that observers often kept studying it for minutes. By exposing and embracing the magnificent diversity of Moroccan society, Bayt Al Fenn tries to question supposed standards and to encourage young people to live and flourish their way. However, this diversity is not always on display and sometimes hidden by supposed standards, which can make young Moroccans feel confused or inadequate. They reflect on different and sometimes contradictory role models promoted by Arab and Berber culture and most importantly, they reflect on different lifestyles and ideals of self-fulfilment.Īll the different influences and reflections contribute to Morocco being a culturally enormously rich and diverse country. They reflect on the cultural and geographical identity of Morocco as a country on the crossroads of Africa, Europe and the Arab World. Questions of identity seem to be of immense importance to young Moroccans, who look for reference while setting up their lives. This year’s guiding theme, “Who am I?” did not only inspire intense debate among visitors of the vernissage and subsequent exhibition but also among the collective of artists during their nine day residency at a remote eco-lodge in Benslimane. Visitors of the exhibition could watch, touch and listen to the artwork. Hence, the responses to the key question were not only different in content but also in form. While most art residencies focus on one specific discipline, Bayt Al Fenn takes a multidisciplinary approach, opening its doors to emerging painters, musicians, poetry slammers, street artists, graphic designers and rappers alike. The project now concluded when the public could discover the fruit of the artists’ work during a vernissage and exhibition at the National Library in Rabat. Chkoun Ana (Who am I)? This was the essential question that kept eleven artists from all over Morocco busy during the 2022 edition of the arts residency “Bayt Al Fenn” (house of art), an annual project jointly organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and Hiba Foundation.
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