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Amado Alfadni (www.amadoalfadni.com)
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Amado Alfadni is an Egyptian-born Sudanese artist. His childhood was composed of two environments: the Cairene street and the Sudanese home. The relationship, and sometimes tension, between the two strongly influenced his view of both cultures. The need to express this dual perspective led him to make art initially and has informed his work since. His work discusses the relationship between the included and the excluded, and opens dialogue on issues of identity and politics. By working with forgotten historical events and current state policies, He raises questions of power dynamics between the individual and authority on a social and political level. His artistic practices have been driven into research and documentation of ignored historical events, especially colonial history and re-reading it from the perspective of the native. In his recent projects he focuses on the military slavery history and slavery caravans crossing the Sahara form Al Fasher (Sudan) to Asyut (Egypt) daarb el arba’en.
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Olì Bonzanigo (olibonzanigo.tumblr.com)
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Travelling since 2013 with an evergrowing curiosity about civilizations and their interconnections, Bonzanigo began discovering Morocco in 2014, working with a Berber Master on the tribal symbols connected with origins and traditional tadelakt manufacture (Marrakesh Biennale 5/ collaboration with Esme Toler).
Since then, she began travelling to the south of Morocco in the Drâa valley, investigating the relation of material trades with the cultural implications of this nomadic encounters.
In July 2017 Bonzanigo presented at Viasaterna Gallery in Milan, a project about water distribution in the Drâa valley in relation to agricultural exploitation in the oasis.
At the present moment she is studying the relation of water sourcing and reservoirs in the Sahara, connected to the nomadic routes intersecting in the desert.
Since then, she began travelling to the south of Morocco in the Drâa valley, investigating the relation of material trades with the cultural implications of this nomadic encounters.
In July 2017 Bonzanigo presented at Viasaterna Gallery in Milan, a project about water distribution in the Drâa valley in relation to agricultural exploitation in the oasis.
At the present moment she is studying the relation of water sourcing and reservoirs in the Sahara, connected to the nomadic routes intersecting in the desert.
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M'barek Bouchichi
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Using different mediums: paint, volume, drawing M'barek Bouhchichi dismantles the re- imagined narrative towards worlds and issues which call his tendencies. He places his works at the intersection of aesthetics, singular picturing, and social insights exploring areas of possible combinations as opportunities for personal re-writing.
The discovery of other fields and imaginary horizons is an essential issue in his artistic approach. M’barek Bouhchichi has gained, from one exhibition to another, a conscious plastic identity. Exhibiting in various galleries both in Morocco and abroad, makes his plastic work go beyond belonging to a single culture. The artist himself, driven by a universal vision, can not join his work into the boundary of one culture that would be exclusive of other cultures which the artist says owe recognition and gratitude to. His exhibitions' openings can't go unnoticed. From Marrakech to Pontevedra and from Paris to Sao Paolo, the artist places his work under the plural and multifaceted look of art admirers, in return his work earns consistency and a constant urge into others to question the artistic practice of painting implemented by the artist and which was up to this point his own .
The discovery of other fields and imaginary horizons is an essential issue in his artistic approach. M’barek Bouhchichi has gained, from one exhibition to another, a conscious plastic identity. Exhibiting in various galleries both in Morocco and abroad, makes his plastic work go beyond belonging to a single culture. The artist himself, driven by a universal vision, can not join his work into the boundary of one culture that would be exclusive of other cultures which the artist says owe recognition and gratitude to. His exhibitions' openings can't go unnoticed. From Marrakech to Pontevedra and from Paris to Sao Paolo, the artist places his work under the plural and multifaceted look of art admirers, in return his work earns consistency and a constant urge into others to question the artistic practice of painting implemented by the artist and which was up to this point his own .
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Eleonora Castagnone (academia.edu/EleonoraCastagnone)
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Phd in Sociology at the School of Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (Italy). Her research focuses on migrants’ patterns of mobility between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Her PhD thesis (2011) was based on longitudinal analysis of biographic data from the MAFE project (Migration between Africa and Europe) lead by INED (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques, Paris) and studied geographical trajectories employed by Senegal migrants.
She has recently contributed to the MHub (Mixed Migration Hub) project, a multi-stakeholder information, data and research collaborative platform on mixed migration in North Africa led by IOM, as a focal point researcher in Morocco, where she collected and analysed more than 180 interviews on the routes employed by Sub-Saharan migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied migrants in Morocco.
She has worked as an expert and consultant for several international organisations, research think tanks and universities, such as FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), IOM (International Organisation for Migration), ICPMD (International Centre for Migration Policy Development), UNESCO, ITC/ILO (International Training Centre of the ILO - International Labour Organisation), FIERI (International and European Forum on Migration Research), CESPI (Centre for International Policy Studies), LDF-Laboratory of Fundamental Rights, the University of Turin and the University of Milan.
Beside a longstanding research experience in Europe, she has a specific expertise on the North African and Sub-Saharan contexts, with working experience in Senegal, Togo, Mali, Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia.
She has recently contributed to the MHub (Mixed Migration Hub) project, a multi-stakeholder information, data and research collaborative platform on mixed migration in North Africa led by IOM, as a focal point researcher in Morocco, where she collected and analysed more than 180 interviews on the routes employed by Sub-Saharan migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied migrants in Morocco.
She has worked as an expert and consultant for several international organisations, research think tanks and universities, such as FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), IOM (International Organisation for Migration), ICPMD (International Centre for Migration Policy Development), UNESCO, ITC/ILO (International Training Centre of the ILO - International Labour Organisation), FIERI (International and European Forum on Migration Research), CESPI (Centre for International Policy Studies), LDF-Laboratory of Fundamental Rights, the University of Turin and the University of Milan.
Beside a longstanding research experience in Europe, she has a specific expertise on the North African and Sub-Saharan contexts, with working experience in Senegal, Togo, Mali, Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia.
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Pau Cata (www.paucata.com)
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Pau Cata has been working in the cultural field as facilitator and curator for more than 10 years. He completed his degree in Contemporary History by the University of Barcelona in 2004 with awarded Erasmus in Italy and Greece. In the same year he moved to London where he worked at The British Museum and the White Cube Gallery. He has an MA in Critical Arts Management and Media Cultural Studies by LSBU. Since 2009 he is the founder director of CeRCCa, Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles, an AIR Program and research center outside of Barcelona. As part of his job he has been involved in numerous research projects in the field of artists mobility and Artists in Residence Programs. He is currently a PhD candidate at University of Edinburgh and co-coordinator of ‘NACMM - North Africa Cultural Mobility Map/Platform HARAKAT and KIBRIT.
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Carlos Pérez Marín (www.carlosperezmarin.com)
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Graduated from the Architecture School in Seville, Spain, in 1997, he founded his own office based in Ceuta where he has developed projects in Spain, France and Morocco, related to urban planning, landscape, housing, culture, civil engineering, office, education, heritage... He collaborates assiduously with artists, like Younes Rahmoun, developing art installations. In 2013 he founded Marsad Drâa, an observatory for Moroccan desert regions, researching on heritage, architecture, urban planning, energy efficiency, desertification, contemporary art, anthropology… Since 2015 he co-organises Caravane Tighmert, a contemporary creation laboratory for oasian cultures. He has been Assistant Professor at the National School of Architecture in Tetouan (2010-2013) and at the National Institut of Fine Arts in Tetouan (2017).
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Heidi Vogels (www.heidivogels.nl www.gardensoffez.com)
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Heidi Vogels is an artist, filmmaker and organizer. In her artistic work she applies photography, film and other forms of research by seeking to redefine the outlook on our day-to-day reality and surroundings. Rooted in a solid conceptual basis, her work consist of multi-layered stories that take different form according to each location, context and audience. While she works at the final stages of the documentary film Gardens of Fez, she pursues further steps concerning the garden as a productive concept. Currently she instigated a new line of research in the oases of Tighmert about the ecology of the garden in context of the desert.
