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22 September – 8 October 2023

And I couldn't See the Moon

Venue

38 rue El Mekhtar, Souk El Blat — Dream City, Tunis

Vernissage

Friday, 22 September 2023 — Dream City opening

Open during the festival, typically 10:00–18:00

Invited to a residency at L'Art Rue for Dream City 2023, El Ghezal conceived a complex visual apparatus where memory appears through chemistry and pigments…

After Lilia Ben Salah / Dream City Festival 2023

" an introspective journey of particles and light "

And I couldn't See the Moon
And I couldn't See the Moon — Dream City installation view, 2023
Bleach and ink drawing sequence from And I couldn't See the Moon
And I couldn't See the Moon — Dream City installation view, 2023
And I couldn't See the Moon installation — Dream City, Tunis

In this poetics of self-implosion, solitude embarks us on an introspective journey of particles and light. And I couldn't See the Moon plunges us in stages into El Ghezal's singular world, which unfolds like a photo-novel or a fragmented essay film—scattered sequences of prison exile and pandemic confinement made visible through bleach, ink, manuscripts, and video.

After Dream City Festival / Lilia Ben Salah, 2023

And I couldn't See the Moon — Dream City installation view, 2023
And I couldn't See the Moon — Dream City installation view, 2023
Bleach and ink drawing sequence from And I couldn't See the Moon
Bleach and ink drawing sequence from And I couldn't See the Moon
And I couldn't See the Moon installation — Dream City, Tunis

Artwork carousel

And I couldn't See the Moon, 2023. Installation — bleach and ink, manuscripts, video Dream City, Tunis
And I couldn't See the Moon, 2023

And I couldn't See the Moon, 2023

Installation — bleach and ink, manuscripts, video Dream City, Tunis

D'eaux, de graines et de particules lumineuses

At Galerie Lilia Ben Salah in Paris, bleach and ink drawings unfold as luminous cartographies of memory.

D'eaux, de graines et de particules lumineuses — exhibition cover view
Métamorphoses 3, 2024 — bleach and ink on blotting paper with light box
Installation detail from D'eaux, de graines et de particules lumineuses