شهادة

What We Witness, We Carry

COLLECTIVE SHOWCASE
February 5th, 2026 | L'BLASSA ART SPACE

About The Showcase

Six North African artists examine how we claim and resist the erasure of places and histories that define us.

An oasis destroyed by extraction. Children flying kites despite lockdown. Dream symbols erased. Earthquake fragments suspended.

Ancient rock carvings—archive and home at once. A father's hidden photographs finally shown.


Territory is cultural, ancestral, embodied. These artists document what dominant systems work to conceal: ecological destruction, restricted freedoms, intergenerational trauma, ancestral persistence, suppressed legacies.


Through photography, painting, drawing, and installation, they assert agency. They make the hidden visible. They transform fragmentation into form.

Bearing witness becomes resistance.

Exhibited Works

SAIF FRADJ | TUNISIA

Autumn of The Earth, Spring of The Comprador

Analog photographs of the Gabes oasis, shot 2024–2025, as industrial extraction destroys it. Records land and water treated as resources to be removed rather than preserved. A document of ecological erasure at the threshold between living landscape and industrial ruin.

ZINEB BOUCHRA | MOROCCO

Fragments

Two interconnected series: one responds to the 1960 Agadir earthquake through abstract fragmentation of archival objects; the other captures dream imagery before waking clarity dissolves it. Both exist in suspension — neither seeks resolution. Artistic truth lives in the threshold of becoming.

ADEM YAHIAOUI | ALGERIA

10000 Years

A UNESCO World Heritage site documented across multiple decades, photographing ancient stone engravings alongside contemporary human presence. Refuses to treat the site as either dead archive or living landscape — holding both in tension. Time collapses: ancestral marks and modern life coexist without hierarchy.

IBOUYEN | MOROCCO

Symbols

Mixed media practice rooted in Amazigh language, dreams, and symbols — knowledge historically erased and misrepresented. Blue functions not just as color but as protection and spiritual depth throughout the work. Occupies the liminal space between opposing forces, between the unconscious and language, without seeking resolution.

ABDELLAH ABOULHAMID | MOROCCO

One Thread to The Sky

Arabic-speaking communities and the persistence of cultural life under constraint — ritual, tradition, and human connection surviving restriction. A single thread recurs as a symbol of freedom, resistance, and the limits imposed upon both. Holds two realities simultaneously: the restrictive system and the human capacity to circumvent it.

ABDELMOUNAIM YOUSFI | MOROCCO

Invisible Maps

A road journey driven south from Marrakech through Mauritania to Senegal, insisting on sustained ground-level attention to terrain and light. Counters the near-total invisibility of these territories in global consciousness. Simple assertion: these lands exist, can be crossed, and can be shown.