Ghita Skali
Morocco/VISUAL ARTS/
Ghita is a multidisciplinary artist. With her installations, videos and interventions, she immerses herself in the visual power and political meaning of iconography and objects. Her work is both humorous and critical. It is one of the foundations of a new kind of institutional critique that expands beyond the art world and also raises important questions about the impact of our colonial past on our society today. She completed the Ateliers (2018/2020) and was noticed for the quality of her presentations. Her work was featured last year by De Volkskrant and the Ubiquarian, among others.
PRESENTING
An artist's book disguised as a medical publication written by six fictional women characters from Morocco in free-wheeling, Narrative Machines clothes truth with falsehood. With wry irony and Google English, it comments on paranoia, fake news, patriarchy, power and media ganging together in the Maghreb (and everywhere else). But it also shows a chosen community of women who confide, support each other and laugh a good load.
Texts by Kaoutar Chaqchaq, Ayla Mrabet, Ghita Skali.
Graphic design: Roxane Maillet. - 2022 - bilingual edition (English / Arabic)