In response to Sara Ouhaddou's work, sound artist Leila Bencharnia will elaborate a musical composition featuring the mathematics of African fractals and the Amazigh alphabet as a musical notation. The piece centers around the language of ceramics, the rhythmic weaving of carpets from the Atlas Mountains and the color codes of Marrakech mosaics. It is a dedication to a deep listening to the material and aesthetics of their stories. Leila Bencharnia invites to an open exchange about the sound piece “ⵖⵣⵍ غزل Ghzil” and how it celebrates the transmission of knowledge that the craftspeople hold, through an intergenerational transition of technologies.
Born in Morocco, Leila Bencharnia is a sound artist, acousmatic interpreter, and musician based in Milan. Daughter of a traditional Moroccan musician, her dialogue with sound began in the village near the Atlas Mountains where she spent her childhood. Her sonic work is composed of analog material, including tapes, vinyl records, and synthesizers. She recognizes forms of radical listening as a modality of knowledge transmission. Bencharnia’s practice seeks to have an active role in the decolonizing of listening as a way to engage with social and political complexity.
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Thw ifa Galleries in Stuttgart und Berlin present contemporary art from a global point of view. The work of the ifa Galleries is based on seeing the world from a diversity and plurality of perspectives, discovering new stories, and shaping emancipatory processes, interactions, and artistic spaces. Our focus is on long-term relationships with artists, partners, and visitors, and our exhibitions and education programmes are developed through practices of collaboration that trace global entanglements and piece them together in new forms of narrative.
ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen promotes a peaceful and enriching coexistence between people and cultures worldwide. ifa supports artistic and cultural exchange in exhibition, dialogue and conference programmes, and it acts as a centre of excellence for international cultural relations. It is part of a global network and relies on sustainable, long-term partnerships. ifa is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital Stuttgart.
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