Immersion in the labyrinth of Daídalos
The exhibition Daídalos / Δαίδαλος is presented at the Port of Tarragona as part of the SCAN International Photography Festival of Tarragona. The exhibition, curated by Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak, presents the works of Camilla de Maffei, Dani Pujalte, Denis Dailleux, Pauline Alioua, Myriam Boulos, Shareef Sarhan, Toni Serra *) Abu Ali and Matteo Guidi & Giuliana Racco.
This is a co-production of SCAN, Port de Tarragona and Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies. With the collaboration of the UNESCO Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Negra Mosca, and the OVNI Archives.
Saturday, November 23rd from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Shelter 1. Port of Tarragona
Moll de la Costa 5-7. Tarragona
As a closing of the exhibition, a space will be opened to allow access to the different photographic proposals, providing the voices, experiences and visions of the collectives Negra Mosca and the OVNI Archives.
13.30 h Catering organized with Mescladís
13:00 h Dialogue visit with Negra Mosca and the curators Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak.
16.30 h Session of projections of the OVNI Archives, in memory of Toni Serra *) Abu Ali.
Bagong Silang , Zena Merton, 2012. Philippines, 11min. VOSE.
A film about a community that lives in a cemetery in Manila. Rural poverty combined with a terribly overcrowded capital explain why many thousands of families have taken to squatting in the city's cemeteries. This film reveals their problems, jobs, sense of community and hopes for the future.
Napoli Centrale , Bouchra Khalili 2002. Morocco, Italy, France, 8 min, VOSE.
The night crossing of a Mediterranean city by car. Its passenger stay there almost invisible, absorbed by the urban view. A voice confirms a lonely night wandering in a city by the sea, an urban journey made to let the time pass away. Who crosses this city isn't only passing through it. He's a local, for a night, before an exile without return.
Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) , Jem Cohen, Lucy Sante, EE.UU, Morocco, 13min. VO.
"En route from the airport to the city center, we found ourselves amazed by the landscape outside of the car windows; a massive construction project under way in all directions. While not in itself unusual, we were by struck dumb by the epic scale and seemingly incomprehensible plan of the development and were drawn to return together to this puzzling zone".
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sabaudia e la "civilta' dei consumi , anonymous on the net, 1974, Italy, 5 mim. VOSE
“Fascism was just a bunch of criminals in power, but it managed to deeply transform Italy. Nowadays the opposite is true, and the power of today’s democratic regime is managing to achieve the acculturation and standardization that fascism was unable to complete. The power of the consumer society that destroys other particular realities and impoverishes the diversity of human beings.”
The City of Saba , DJ Kadagian, Four Seasons Productions, 2007, EE.UU, 9 min, VOSE.
"There is a glut of wealthy in the City of Saba. Everyone has more than enough. Even the bath stokers wear gold belts. Huge grape clusters hang down on every street and brush the faces of the citizens".
Excerpt Le Bled ( Buildings in a Field)
El Canto de la Abubilla , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2015, Morocco, 28 min, VOSE.
“Traveler who travels with no other baggage than imagination.”
Last Night Dikr , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2005, Morocco, 7 min, VO.
The search for water, the descent deep into the well of the heart. Based on a 17th Century Persian poem by Najmudin Kubra.
