… It is her way of evolving with her time, of evaluating the times. Mouna Karray seems to bring this slice of life to the screen with a sense of observation and listening that we must resolve to follow patiently, almost with our fingertips.

The challenge, coherent with the intimate dimension of the portrait, is not to weigh down with autobiography a corpus of words that would make a stage on screen, but to combine listening and observing in a more welcoming gesture…

… There are the archival photos that Ferdousse revisits as if the ball of memory could also be untangled before our eyes and in our hands. As a place where testimonies meet, these visual documents bring to the narrative something of a counterpoint to the spoken word, reactivating a power of emotion, that of diving into the long time of archived memory.…

… But perhaps one should also read into them a little more than the ordinary reflection on moments of her life, sometimes close, sometimes distant, in the way Ferdousse perhaps revisits the family photos displayed on her sewing machine, like a story of generational transmission. For Karray’s archive is not just a medium for retrospection; when manipulated, it also lends itself to a kind of gestural remembrance…

Adnen Jdey. Extracts from “Memory in gesture”, text of the exhibition.