Nobody will Talk About Us
SnappedART AFRICA MAGAZINE
March 2016
“I went back to the Tunisian southwest, his silent poverty, its mineral loneliness, its arid and forgotten soils whose foundations were rich with minerals, which have been confiscated and stripped from these oppressed – but not submissive – souls.(…)
“I went back to the Tunisian southwest, his silent poverty, its mineral loneliness, its arid and forgotten soils whose foundations were rich with minerals, which have been confiscated and stripped from these oppressed – but not submissive – souls.
I took the road that crosses these dusty lands, an area that is both lifeless and inhabited, where the captive figure moves. This body is moving within this universe as its matrix; it extracts itself with a gesture that breaks its confinement. In its struggle, in its encounters, in its wanderings, this body is a figure of resistance, a figure pushing for freedom and the reenchantment of a forgotten land.”
Mouna Karray was born and educated in Tunisia. In 2001, she completed her MA in Image Media at Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics and Arts. She currently works between France and Tunisia.
‘Nobody Will Talk About Us’ will run from the 8 April − 21 May 2016 at the Tyburn Gallery in London, UK.