Solar Noon
Fredj Moussa
Le violon bleu / Blue Wind Projects, Sidi Bou Said
- Title
- Solar Noon
- Gallery
- Le violon bleu / Blue Wind Projects, Sidi Bou Said
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 11 min
In North Africa, between the end of the Atlas Mountains and the Saharan platform, a dry lake separates the Mashreq (east) from the Maghreb (west). Against all expectations, this is a landscape in perpetual change. Solar Noon reinvents its coordinates, grafting fragments of stories onto it in the form of tableaux vivants where different beliefs, symbols and rituals intersect in a composite imaginary perspective. The film shifts the reality of the desert into that of myth, exploring its layers of stories and revealing buried memories. Determined by the sun, Solar Noon composes with its zenith.
- CIFRA Award 2023
Stills
Fredj Moussa
- Artist
1992, Paris
Fredj Moussa (born 1992) was born in Paris and studied at the prestigious French studio Le Fresnoy from 2021 to 2023. He lives and works between France and Tunisia. His work combines film and steel constructions, moving between sculpture and the exploration of audiovisual technologies. Foreign landscapes, wandering figures and elliptical situations run through his films. Fiction or documentary, the question is left hanging.
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Le violon bleu / Blue Wind Projects
- Address
- 16 rue de la Gare, 2016, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
- Phone
- + (216) 71 743 241
- contact@leviolonbleugallery.com
- Website
- leviolonbleugallery.com
The Violon Bleu gallery was founded in 2003 by Essia Hamdi, with a policy of promoting the modern artists of L’Ecole de Tunis, as well as international artists such as Arman, Sosno and Yves Klein.
The blue wind project is the gallery’s curatorial programme, set up by Khadija Hamdi, to promote contemporary artists from the Mediterranean, in particular by creating a link between Tunisia and Spain.
The gallery has participated in several international art fairs in Paris, London and Abu Dhabi and has been responsible for the acquisition of some artists from the MENA region and in particular from the Tunis School by prestigious museums such as the Guggenheim New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.