Exhibitions &
Programming
Moderator and Lead Orchestrator, Ciné-Guerrillas: Unveiling Forgotten Archives and Transnational Solidarity, film screening of Ciné-Guerillas: Scenes From the Labudović Reels (Mila Turajlić, 2022), followed by a discussion with Mila Turajlić and Elaine Mokhtefi, 2024
Emerging Scholars Liaison, Photography Network (PN), 2023-2025
Curator, “Art Teleported 2021”, CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
Sahara Chronicle (2006-2009) involved field trips to the transit migration hubs in Agadez and Arlit in Niger, in the Libyan desert, on the Algero-Moroccan border; Mauritania and the Western Sahara as well as the harbor where clandestine boat passages leave from Senegal to the Canary Islands.
Transit migration through the Sahara is a large-scale collective experience that is best understood, perhaps, in its systemic dimension. Highly adjustable, these movements have generated prolific operational networks, systems of information and social organization among fellow migrants as well as interaction with local populations. The long-term video research Sahara Chronicle works with a notion of geography both as social practice and organizing system. The project is an open anthology of videos on the modalities of migration across the Sahara. It introduces the migration system as an arrangement of pivotal sites, each of which having a particular function in the striving for migratory autonomy, as well as in the attempts made by diverse authorities to contain and manage these movements.
Award for Images of Research, “Photographic Archives of the Algerian War of Independence” by Maura McCreight