Opening: Wednesday November 1st 6pm
The networking process undertaken by BIENALSUR gives rise to numerous dialogues and brainstorming sessions between the members of this network in permanent movement. One such dialogue was with Fabien Danesi, director of the Frac Corsica, leading to the idea of a series of crossed residencies, enabling photographers from three BIENALSUR member countries to have an artistic experience that would “erase borders”.
It was then, when we shared this project with Mona Khazindar from MOC, that we selected the six photographers participating in these cross residencies between the KSA –Riyadh and its surroundings–, France –more specifically in Corsica– and Argentina –in Buenos Aires and Dolores. Moat Alofi, Tasneem Alsultan, Nicolás Janowski, Laura Glusman, Laetizia Debian and Sébastien Arrighi were the artists who sought to “erase borders” through their endeavours.
Arrighi and Janowsky in Ryadh, Debian and Tasmeen in Buenos Aires, Glusman and Alofi in Corsica, all pursued their work in unfamiliar scenarios. The outcome of this convergence of gazes, in which we decided to add some previous pieces to this experience as a sign of the blurring of frontiers, is manifest in this exhibition at the Fenaa Alawwal Center. The site location in DQ imbues this collaborative proposal with distinctive significance.
Image: Sébastien Arrighi, Serie Desert Rose
