The first edition of the artistic event MATZA KERKENNAH has just begun. It will be held until April 9, 2017.
The event brings together a dozen artists from Tunisia, Switzerland, France and Belgium to Kerkennah in the village of Chergui to work on the challenges of the Mediterranean Sea. In close collaboration with the inhabitants of the island, this initiative starts from art and its contemporary practices to take an interest in fishing as a means of subsistence and to the sea as a real common space and place of sharing.
MATZA is an international initiative founded by the Swiss artist Séverin Guelpa (https://guelpa.ch/), based on a multidisciplinary approach and the construction of collective processes. It is a laboratory of ideas and open-air projects.
On the site of the project manager and artist, one reads: “The work of Severin Guelpa is anchored in an observation of the transformation processes of the territory, the movements of the social fabric and the conflicts at work, readable in the very matter of the landscape. His works, often of a minimal nature, combine raw materials, construction techniques or craftsmanship by combining the signs of social cleavages with those of daily power relations. It is a safe bet that surrounded by talented artists with different sensibilities, Severin Guelpa will know how to make Kerkenah speak at best in this period of great social, economic disruption, …
The fruit of this work will then be presented in Tunis during an exhibition at the National Museum of Bardo from April 15, 2017 (opening on April 14 at 18:00).
Photo credits: Pierre Gassin / Palace of Photography
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