LATIFA ECHAKHCH – HADASH
2014-12-22Adolescence, with its assorted baggage of mixed ideals, has a certain naiveté about it.
Looking back at that, which turned us both outward and against everything, we cannot but do it with bemused sympathy. That courage to leap from up high, to play among the gravestones, to pen manifestos on peace and friendship.
Such writings may have been kept secret, hidden for decades in the pages of diaries, and youthful defiance is surely made easier when roaming in bands; the same goes for the ground on which one plays, whose sheer gravity is easily forgotten by youthful distractions. Yet at the time we were quite certain of that, that we were the new. Such are the moments that Latifa Echakhch evokes in her current exhibition, instances of a time elapsed and forgotten.
Carian Hmimar, which translates as “reddish shantytown,” refers to Mediouna, a town in the vicinity of Casablanca, Morocco. A peripheral implant on the city’s outskirts, its children have made the adjacent cemetery into a playground, coming there regularly to play.
Opposite – Vendredi 11 août 1989 – Part 1, 2014
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2015
Dvir Gallery
14 Reshit Hochma Street
PO Box: 35411
6135302 Tel Aviv
Israel
