The exhibition Les Sentinelles invites the spectator to a journey through the photographic and audiovisual collections of the CNAP, represented here by the works of 21 artists from the Arab world and its diaspora. Five homes are to be explored, through the recent works of emerging artists.
In search of a compass” crosses the region from north to south and from east to west, to forgotten or disputed desert territories.
Between here and there, «Daily Urban» introduces us into the city and its interstices, to give back to the space a habitable dimension.
With «Tout contre l'histoire», we rub shoulders with alternative versions of history, from national independence to the 2011 uprisings.
“Survies” invites us to understand the trauma and resistance of more than half a century by addressing the situation of the Palestinian, Algerian and Syrian peoples.
Through «Transit», we enter the areas of passage but also of hindrance to migrations in the Mediterranean.
Through the games of documentary and fiction, the works are theatres that expose the tragic consciousness of time while putting it at a distance by the right alchemy of an emancipatory plastic form.