The Storyteller
Katia Kameli
Kulte Gallery, Rabat
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- Title
- The Storyteller
- Gallery
- Kulte Gallery, Rabat
- Year
- 2012
- Duration
- 12 min
The “halqa” or “spectators circle”, is held on Jamaa-El-Fna square in Marrakech. The “hlaïqua”, the artist who present halqas, is the bearer of an ancestral Moroccan theatrical tradition. Abderahim Al Azalia is a specific teller. He performs, on his own way, Bollywood movies, very popular style in Maghreb. For The Storyteller, he acts in the Royal Theater of Marrakech, inside an unfinished opera offering only a concrete assembly. He is telling us the story of the movie Dosti by Satyen Bose, a black and white classical film. Al Azalia tells us how Ramu and Mohan, the two characters, escape their own condition through their unfailing friendship. The Storyteller creates a mise en abyme effect by bringing together Al Azalia and the two characters of Dosti, who gather an audience and play music to survive.
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Katia Kameli
- Artist
1973
A French-Algerian artist and filmmaker, Katia Kameli bases her practice on research. Historical and cultural events inspire the diverse forms of her visual and poetic imagination. She describes herself as a ‘translator,’ but her translation is not merely a transition between two cultures or an act of transmission. It is an extension of meanings and forms, a rewriting of stories. Her work sheds light on a global history, characterized by porous boundaries and reciprocal influences, opening a reflexive path that generates a critical perspective on the world. Kameli graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges and completed the Collège-Invisible post-diploma at the École Supérieure d’Arts in Marseille. Her work has gained visibility and recognition on the international art and film scenes and has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, cinemas, and film festivals.
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- Address
- Rue Benzart, Rabat, Morocco
- Phone
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