In their research, the artists explore collective and personal experiences of reconstructing memory, the fragmentation of identity and mourning. After the talk, there will be a guided tour of the exhibition Ecologies of Peace II, organized in conjunction with TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía. Through this display, the artists will be engaging in a dialogue involving the themes of the exhibited works based on their own interests and perspectives. The activity has been organized with the cooperation of Casa Árabe, the Mateo Inurria School of Art and Design and the Cordoba Photographic Association (AFOCO). The artist-in-residency project was selected by Culture Moves Europe, a project financed by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

Salima Hamrini is a Moroccan photographer who is based in Berlin. Her visual language lies at the crossroads between documentary photography and film-like aesthetics. A self-taught artist, she discovered photography in 2015 and adopted it as a means of self-expression, creating a fusion between documentary realism and cinematic narrative. Her work explores intimate human experiences within societies which are traversing complex realities, often adding text to deepen the stories she tells. Through documentary and conceptual photography, she tackles issues such as loss, memory, archives and identity, highlighting perspectives which often get forgotten. Her most recent project, In My Heart I Know You, is a fictional archive inspired by Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy and historical accounts about Al-Andalus. In the project, she reconstructs a fragmented history that follows the personal footsteps of an anonymous woman from Al-Andalus who navigates her way through exile, memory and cultural loss.

Nasri Sayegh is a French-Lebanese writer, visual artist, actor, performer and DJ. She studied French Literature at Saint-Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut and at the New Sorbonne in Paris, then continuing her studies in Theater at the École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique in Paris. Her work combines photography, collage, video and embroidery, giving rise to diffuse, blurred and fleeting images which constantly seem to run the risk of vanishing. Using her personal visual archives, Sayegh alters and deconstructs these images in order to reconstruct her own historiography, creating visual cross-references and pretexts for the invention, excavation and montage of new layers of meaning. Since 2016, she has been working on a project titled Paysages Exquis/Choses Vues, a compilation of images about “incompleteness” which takes the form of a catalogue/atlas.