Achref Toumi
Between Them, Two Mountains and Two Seas - Installation - 2024
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 26
Between Them, Two Mountains and Two Seas uses dream to evoke separation and emigration from Tunisia. Comprising a three-channel video projection and a model of an unfinished place, the installation examines the effects of alienation and the tearing apart of families caused by departure.
Two videos, projected onto the ceiling, show the reconstruction of dreamlike spaces haunted by absent people. The dreams were dreamt by the women in my family – my mother, my grandmother and my aunts. In a third video, projected in miniature onto the concrete model, sleepers – my cousins – explore the walls of an unfinished city.
Achref Toumi
Achref Toumi is a Tunisian artist based in France. He recently graduated from the École supérieure de l’audiovisuel et du cinéma (ESAC) with a Master’s degree in filmmaking. His family, his Tunisian roots and his country’s aesthetic are at the heart of his work. He describes his cinematographic practice as a means of preserving and archiving disappearing elements.
