Art
Architecture
Interior Design
Publications
On-going
(1)
May 31st, is my mother’s birth date, and 1956 the year Morocco gained independence from France. Both hold a personal significance in my life, and define my own referential matrix to the world. Intimate and personal experiences exist on the margins of dominant narratives. Our emotions and affects play a role in shaping our political and social identities. As an artist, I also want to confront and explore how these can be expressed and engaged with through contemporary art. In choosing that day, I want to tell a story that bridges the personal to the universal. A story that can be used as a device to sustain or negotiate narratively performed meaning in ongoing relational processes. A way to assert positionality through a relational ethic that avoids identity politics.
Its first iteration will consist of a series of 12 interactive LED panels that collectively form a singular piece, allowing us to experience the same day, May 31st, from various points in time, spanning from 1956 all the way to 2124. These images, powered by an artificial intelligence date, will represent a view of the sky on that day, in a gradation of colours from black to light blue, then from dark blue to black, recreating all the stages of a day, from sunrise to sunset. Displayed in real-time, these visuals will reflect the sky at that exact moment and location, as the installation will be synchronized with the local time zone of the site.
(1) May 31st,2025, LED panels,
120 x 120cm
(2–7) Genius Meterologica,2025, Interactive LED panels,200 x150 cm