Commissioner: Institut Francais; Curators: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Venue: Giardini
Zineb Sedira representation at the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennial with an installation and a new film, entitled Dreams have no titles, is a cheeky wink at the theme title for the Venetian event: “the Milk of Dreams”. Zineb
Sedira (Gennevilliers, 1963) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in London. She explores collective memory, generational transmission and the historical and social events that link France to Algeria, her parents’ birthplace, to
produce alternative stories and provoke new reflections. Her family and friends contribute to her creations with autobiographical narrations and documentaries that tell personal unfiltered stories which bring universal ideas to the
forefront. Solidarity, identity, freedom, the fight against discrimination and racism, are intertwined with personal and collective stories in this immersive andhumanist project that comes to life with Free Hands (1965) by Ennio Lorenzini,
a film about postcolonial Algeria presented during the event. The work is the result o two years’ research during which the artist explored the archives of the Algiers Film Center (CAC), the film archives in Paris and in Bologna to find
documents and chronicles of the 60s and 70s. Sedira highlights the great intellectual ferment in this period, which fueled cinematographic co-productions in Algeria, and European countries such as France and Italy. Algeria was in fact
an important center for cultural exchange and a mirror of an anti-imperialist political conscience. Continua a leggere su Exibart
