Latifa Laâbissi

For several years, Latifa Laâbissi has been turning the stage into a place in which the downtrodden, troublesome and unruly become visible. Alongside singer and composer Walid Ben Selim, Flaming Creatures continues her investigations, within which poetry and the voice open up a space for echoes of a unique kind. Together, the two artists have turned to a shared heritage, linked to Morocco and Amazigh culture, in order to extract matter of a living kind, made up of songs, gestures and resonances from the past. Here, within an installation designed by Nadia Lauro, figures of a fleeting, multiple kind cross each other’s paths, and what had, until now, escaped our attention, suddenly becomes visible, audible once again. Between intimate memory and collective history, the two artists search for a common language, a place of transit where heritage and invention meet and confront each other. Flaming Creatures sets itself up as a space the confines of which reveal themselves as active forces, capable of shifting narratives, and of hosting forms in the making. The piece is a celebration of these forces, in terms of their intensity and capacity to generate experience, alter perceptions and make room for other presences.