Book signing & Conversation The Africans
On the occasion of the Material Insanity exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) is organising a series of encounters with the artists featured.
For this first session, the guests, M’barek Bouhchichi (artist) and Juan Palao (Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech), will discuss the book The Africans – co-written by Bouhchichi, Omar Berrada, Stefania Pandolfo, Ali Essafi and Emmanuel Iduma – published by Kulte Éditions in the context of the Averroès Meetings and the exhibition Les mains noires, at the Kulte Gallery in 2016.
Based on a solo show by M’barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, this book features the contributions of an anthropologist, a filmmaker and a writer, all Africans, who are trying for the first time to face directly the wound of being black in Morocco today. Based on a questioning about segregation and inequalities, the aim is to keep alive the possibility of converting, through art and research, the stigmas of racism.
![Lisa Reihana, detail in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17, Ultra HD video, colour, 7.1 sound, 64 min. Image courtesy of the artist, New Zealand at Venice and Artprojects. With support of Creative New Zealand and NZ at Venice Patrons and Partners.](https://www.artskop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Lisa-Reihana-detail-in-Pursuit-of-Venus-infected-2015–17-Ultra-HD-video-colour-7.1-sound-64-min.-Image-courtesy-of-the-artist-New-Zealand-at-Venice-and-Artprojects.jpg)
