manifesto of fragility – A World of Endless Promise
Randa Maroufi – Bab Sebta (Ceuta’s Gate), 2019
2024
Video 19’00’’, stereo sound, colour
Venue
-
Lyon
Born 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
The photographer and video artist Randa Maroufi explores the notion of borders, those in-between spaces where opposites cohabit: legal and illegal, personal and impersonal, official rules and personal bearings. In her film Bab Sebta, shot in a studio, the artist reconstructs the daily life of thousands of people working in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Morocco and the gateway to Europe. In a series of long tracking shots, she shows the trafficking of manufactured goods; transported across the border on foot, they are exempt from tax or sold at discounted prices in Moroccan cities. Alternating points of view, she films the endless queues of men and women who prepare the colourful bundles or conceal goods. Blending documentary and fiction, Maroufi’s film does not only document a micro-territory of multiple trades and expectations; it examines a fragile world governed by economic and political flows of far greater proportions.
Courtesy the artist and PARIS-B
Produced by Barney production & Monfeuri Production
Artist(s)
Discover also
- manifesto of fragility
Phoebe Boswell – dwelling, 2022
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Eva Nielsen – Reversal, 2022
Zoled, 2022
Polhodie, 2022
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Clemens Behr – Ruines Flottantes, 2022
Usines Fagor
Born 1985 in Koblenz, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
- manifesto of fragility
Richard Learoyd – Sunflowers, 2018
A Murder of Magpies, 2013
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Christina Quarles
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Erin M. Riley–
Why Now ?, 2021
The Hidden Crisis, 2022
I Don’t Remember, 2022
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Michelle & Noel Keserwany – Les Chenilles, 2022
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Sara Sadik – Ils finiront dans des ravins, 2022
Usines Fagor
- manifesto of fragility
Nicolas Daubanes – Je ne reconnais pas la compétence de votre tribunal !, 2022
Usines Fagor