LONDON 23/05/2025 – 15/06/2025
Something special is happening. As part of the Shubbak Festival, five young artists from Tunisia will share their Works in a small but meaningful exhibition. This collaboration is part of an ongoing exchange between INTERFERENCE—a light and media art project based in Tunis—and Shubbak, a festival that brings together artists from across the Arab world.
This project is about connections—connections between countries, between generations, and between personal and shared memories. Each artist’s work speaks about identity, home, family, and the sea, showing how young people reflect on the past and imagine the future.
CURATORIAL TEXT BY Aymen Gharbi
Water and earth are more than elements of nature; they shape our histories, identities, and ways of being. Water is movement and memory, carrying the stories of those who have crossed it—some seeking refuge, others never reaching the shore. It is both a passage and a boundary, a witness to migration, exile, and loss. The Mediterranean, full of bodies and unfinished journeys, holds the weight of both hope and tragedy. Water is ever-shifting, unpredictable, and fluid, yet it connects lands and people, carrying histories across generations. Like a grandfather, it moves with wisdom, shaping and reshaping the landscapes it touches.
Earth, in contrast, is where we root ourselves. It is the land we are born into, the soil that sustains us, and the place we return to. It holds the imprints of ancestors, the struggles of those who came before, and the resilience of those who refuse to be erased. Earth is shaped by borders—dividing, controlling, and defining belonging—but beyond these imposed lines, it remains a space of care, nourishment, and resistance. Like a grandmother, it nurtures and protects, carrying the weight of memory while offering the promise of renewal.
At SHUBBAK 2025, in a time marked by ecological destruction and forced displacement, this exhibition weaves together water and earth as sites of resistance, grief, and survival. Through the lens of media art, seven artists respond to these shifting landscapes, exploring how bodies, identities, and memories are carried, uprooted, and redefined. The exhibition unfolds as a two-window projection on Edgware Road, a street layered with histories of migration, exile, and cultural hybridity. It becomes a threshold, mirroring the tension between rootedness and movement, between loss and resilience.
In dialogue with SHUBBAK’s vision of art as a form of resistance and SEE DJERBA’s exploration of ancestral landscapes, this exhibition seeks to hold space for fragmented histories and unfinished narratives. It embraces radical tenderness in the face of loss, crafting a space where bodies, stories, and landscapes are seen in their entirety—imperfect, interrupted, yet enduring.
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