23–26 OCT 2025
Cairo
INTERFERENCE at DCAF — Arab Focus
INTERFERENCE took part in DCAF – Arab Focus as an extension of its ongoing engagement with light as a public, social, and spatial practice. Presented within the framework of a performing arts festival, this participation allowed the project to test new curatorial conditions, where light installations coexist with live performance, movement, and time-based artistic forms.
Installed in public space and activated during evening programming, the light works accompanied audiences as they moved between performances, creating moments of attention and spatial awareness. Over the course of the festival, the installations were experienced by more than 600 visitors per night, reflecting a strong public presence and confirming the capacity of light-based work to engage diverse audiences within a multidisciplinary context.
The works presented were selected from See Djerba 2024 and 2025, and reflect INTERFERENCE’s broader curatorial focus over the past years on ecological and environmental questions, approached through material, technological, and cultural perspectives. The themes of water, salt, and earth functioned as both contextual references and conceptual anchors, connecting local landscapes to global ecological concerns.
Zeineb Kaabi’s work approached these questions through a research-based and data-driven process. Her practice begins with investigation and data collection, which she then translates into visual compositions using digital tools such as TouchDesigner.
Zeineb Kaabi.DCAF2025.Fairouz Nouri
Achref Guesmi presented a video-based work rooted in his ongoing exploration of identity and memory. Drawing from his Amazighi heritage, his practice uses moving image as a means of connecting personal history with collective narratives. In dialogue with the surrounding performances and the urban setting, his work emphasized continuity, transmission, and the presence of cultural memory in contemporary visual language.
Achref Guesmi.DCAF 2025.Fairouz Nouri
Nour El Ain Najjar, an architecture student, approached the site from a spatial and experiential perspective. Her work reflected on tradition and lived experience, shaped by her parallel life between Tunis, where she studies, and Djerba, where she originates. Through subtle spatial interventions, her installation addressed questions of belonging, mobility, and the ways architecture and memory intersect in public space.
Nour El Ain Najjar.DCAF2025.Fairouz Nouri
Presenting these works within Arab Focus opened INTERFERENCE to a wider regional conversation. The context allowed the project to move beyond its local framework and engage with artists, curators, and audiences from across the Arab world.
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CURATORS
Aymen Gharbi
Fairouz Nouri
Khadouja Tamzini