Videozoom - Videoartisti del Marocco: VIDEOZOOM now in its seventh edition continues its commitment to the art of emerging countries, turning this year to the Arab world.
Past exhibition
Kyo Art Gallery in collaboration with Rome's Sala 1, presents VIDEOZOOM - Videoartists from Morocco. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Gallo and with the support of the Fondation Hassan II for the Marocains living abroad and the Lazio Region, after Rome and Frosinone.
VIDEOZOOM now in its seventh edition continues its commitment to the art of emerging countries, turning this year to the Arab world.
A historic "gateway" between Africa and Europe, Morocco is currently undergoing a rapid process of modernization to which even the Moroccan community in Italy, the largest in our country, is not unfamiliar.
In the 1990s, along with political transformations, Morocco saw the emergence of new artists, who experimented with a plurality of languages, contaminated with the universe of media communication, and who addressed topical issues such as censorship or past repression. These include Mounir Fatmi, one of Africa's most successful international artists, who reflects on cultural stereotypes and the denial of self-representation; and Brahim Bachiri, who questions being Moroccan today.
Since 2000, many young videomakers have been present at international festivals, among them Mohamed Ezoubeiri, Mourad El Figuigui, and Hassan Boufous, who work in their homeland and are original observers of a changing world. Bouchra Khalili, on the other hand, has chosen the Mediterranean-the ideal and material frontier between often opposing points of view and expectations-as the pivotal theme of her research, while Fatima Mazmouz, focuses on the identity of artist and woman. Finally, Videozoom Morocco presents some of the animators of Collectif212, founded by artists active in Morocco, including Amina Benbouchta and Safaa Erruas, at their first video collaboration, and Younès Rahmoun, all characterized by a research that combines forms, materials and ideas from Morocco's cultural tradition, with the languages of contemporary "Western" art and new media.