[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h6″ text_size=”h6″ text_transform=”uppercase” text_color=”accent”]Curatorial[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”8\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”h1″ subheading=”Solo show, 25 January to 24 March 2024, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis”]NIDHAL CHAMEKH \u2013 ET SI CARTHAGE?<\/b>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Et si Carthage?<\/em> takes its title from a question asked by \u00c9douard Glissant: what if Carthage had not been destroyed? What might the Mediterranean have become had the Phoenician city, a place of crossroads and encounters, continued to exist alongside Rome?<\/p>\n The exhibition takes this question as its starting point and opens a moment in which the past, present and future of exile can be read transversally, as times that are all interconnected.<\/p>\n Nidhal Chamekh turns this question into a field of research. Through sculptural assemblages and drawings such as Masque noir, t\u00eate de Niobides<\/em> (2023) and Calchi facciale<\/em> (2023), the exhibition confronts the history of Mediterranean antiquity with the ways it was read and used by colonial ideology, and with the crossings and exiles of the present.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n I accompanied the project from its research phase: following the work in the studio throughout the months of production, and building with the artist the cartography of concepts, images and references that structures the exhibition, from Glissant\u2019s Carthage to the archaeological and colonial narratives of antiquity.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”]<\/p>\n Artist:<\/strong> Nidhal Chamekh<\/p>\n Research, studio follow-up and cartography:<\/strong> Salma Kossemtini<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-284275″ medias=”84514,84515,84516,84517,84518,84519,84520,84521,84522,84523,84524,84525,84526,84527″ gutter_size=”3″ media_items=”media|lightbox|original,icon,description” screen_lg=”1000″ screen_md=”600″ screen_sm=”480″ single_overlay_opacity=”50″ single_padding=”2″][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”]<\/p>\n Courtesy of Selma Feriani Gallery and the artist Nidhal Chamekh<\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h6″ text_size=”h6″ text_transform=”uppercase” text_color=”accent”]Curatorial[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”8\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”h1″ subheading=”Solo show, 25 January to 24 March 2024, Selma Feriani Gallery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,111],"tags":[102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84633,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275\/revisions\/84633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salmakossemtini.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}