Letters for a Future Passenger
Exhibit: Fully Booked / by El Birou Gallery
Sousse, Tunisia / May -July 2024
Letters for a Future Passenger
It is an installation based on an interview with Ismail Maroui, a Tunisian migrant who attempted to cross to Europe five times before obtaining a visa. The project uses drawings and traditional calligraphy to present his narrative. Letters for a Future Passenger is a collaborative project designed by Edgar Endress In collaboration with Soufiene Slim (Calligraphy) and Malek Lahmar.
Video:
Naima Snoussi (mother)
Fraj Ghezal (son)
Nesrine Mediouni (videographer)
Text-based on the story of:
Ismail Maroui
Special thanks to:
Karim Sghaier
Salome Sghaier
Ines Ben Jilani
Hiba Ladhari
Amira Ayedi
Collaborators USA:
Chen Bi
Abi Abdulrahman Naanseh (calligraphy sketches)
Project sponsored by El Birou Gallery
Exhibition from JULY 5 to 20, 2024 (extended to July 31)
Artistic residency and exhibition project Nour Justinia Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia.
Project leader: Elbirou Art Gallery
Curators: Abir Boukhari & Karim Sghaier
—————– This project invited 24 artists to occupy 24 rooms on several floors during the renovation of the Nour Justinia hotel in Sousse. The hotel accommodates artists in renovated rooms, while rooms under construction are transformed into ephemeral studios... Sea view rooms will thus receive a new type of tenant, not tourists but artists from various backgrounds, Tunisian and international, emerging and established, who will mark their visits to these rooms with new creations. UV – FULLY BOOKED, reappropriated a hotel that became “fully booked” even though it is partly under construction, not to fill a void but as a demonstration of the inherent relationship of art with the phases of transformation often conducive to creation.