Mediterranean Identities
This axis brings together works that examine the Mediterranean as a territory of circulation, rupture and memory. Beyond its geographical borders, the Mediterranean emerges as a political and affective space shaped by migrations, revolts, exile and shared histories.
Through documentary and fictional approaches, I explore how identities are formed within displacement, how bodies carry the traces of crossings, uprisings and inherited silences. Particular attention is given to collective bodies — crowds, movements, women’s narratives — and to moments where individual experience merges with historical events.
Projects developed within this axis engage with places such as Egypt, France and Spain, tracing resonances between revolutionary movements, migratory trajectories and contemporary forms of belonging. The Mediterranean is approached as a living archive, where past and present coexist, collide and echo.
Here, identity is not fixed, but continuously negotiated — through territory, memory and the political presence of bodies in space.
As a French-Egyptian artist who has lived close to ten years in Egypt and twenty out of my home country, my work is grounded in the circulations, frictions, and inheritances that shape Mediterranean identities.
I have researched Arab Jewish histories and displaced or marginalized memories, which I explore through films, installations, and narrative forms where belonging fractures, shifts and is re-imagined.
Navigating between documentary and fiction, I examine what remains of a place when we leave it—language, gesture, pain—and what continues to resonate in a no man's land, despite exile.
My practice seeks to reveal a plural Mediterranean, inhabited by intersecting voices, fluid identities, and bodies moving across unset geographies.
