CELLULES DORMANTES (Dormant Cells) - An exhibition by SAID AFIFI - Institut français de Casablanca - May 12/June 4, 2016
We arrived at Öro island on December 14, 2015. We were immediately fascinated by the Russian military constructions from the first and second world wars. The island is characterized by its rather brutalist military architecture, bunkers, military shelters, defense systems and stations and long-distance radars. The exhibit Cellules dormantes revisits these places through a completely singular and fantastical, perhaps even science-fictional, lens across military architecture and images from after the disappearance of Man. It’s a sort banalized dystopia that asks questions about the absurdity of humankind who we are (Said Afifi).
Curators: ismaël, David Ruffel, Anne Laurence Sowan.
