News from Nowhere
“Sea's reminiscence “ 2021, Syringe needle on a fossil stone
News from Nowhere, Open studio 2020, Tunis, Tunisia
“By opening the horizon of time and its narratives, by awakening a memory that goes beyond the simple memories of a human existence, the project of Belaïd and Hagedorn extends the reverberations of the sea. The pathways in dialogue that they take lead to the manufacture of a material and spectral memory of the anthropocene pointing thus its ruin and its shipwreck. By making themselves archons and by presenting us these becoming-archives, the artists send us back to this horizon without perceptible limits. The archive has something of oceanic, reminds us Arlette Farge: "Because disproportionate, invading as the tides of equinoxes, the avalanches or the floods. The comparison with natural and unpredictable flows is far from being fortuitous; the one who works in archives is often surprised to evoke this journey in terms of diving, of immersion, even of drowning... The sea is there."
Excerpt from Mohamed Ali Berhouma's text about the exhibition “News From Nowhere”
What may remain 2020
Collage of items found on the beach, 60cmx40cm, NFNW Open Studio Tunis
“What may remain if...“ 2020
Collage of items found on the beach, 60cmx40cm, NFNW Open Studio Tunis
“Double Temporality“ 2021
CollageSmartphone screen layers
on found unknown identity pictures 23cm x 31cm
“News from Nowhere“ exhibition at Mouhit, Tunis
“About accelerating the time process“
Work table experimenting salt crystallization
on objects found on the beach 2021
“News from Nowhere“ exhibition at Mouhit, Tunis
“STONES STUDIES : The Rise and Fall” Intissar Belaid & Moritz Hagedorn, Video stills, 2020