Nozze in Mediterraniu
NOZZE IN MEDITERRANIU
Thiers Jacques / Ghjacumu, Quenot Sébastien, Buffa Christian, Sahraoui Fethi, Leccia Ange, Toussaint Jean-Philippe
Size: 22 x 16 cm
Pages: 88
Published by Albiana-Università di Corsica, 2024
In a poetic stroll amidst polychrome snapshots, the exhibition Nozze in Mediterraniu reveals the aesthetic, emotional, mineral, and human similarities across the shores of the Mediterranean, and the sometimes tormented histories of Corsica and Algeria.
After the translation of Noces into the Corsican language, Sébastien Quenot proposes with Christian Buffa, the photographic curator, a plural approach to the Mediterranean, this sea which "brings together as much as it divides", to use the words of Pedrag Matjevetich. Here we approach their arts, in this case, literature, cinema, and photography in a diachronic discussion on the diversity of experiences of the Mediterranean.
By bringing together the early texts written by Albert Camus in his poetic and philosophical work Noces , with extracts from the first novel in the Corsican language by Ghjacumu Thiers A Funtana d'Altea, the selected pieces bear witness to the possibility of the Mediterranean attested by photos taken on the fly, or even collected in an egregore search, during a mission carried out in Algeria.
From Bastia to Tipasa, from the Corsican libecciu to the winds of Djemila, through a shift in discourse, the itinerary reveals a Mediterranean community expressed in a cosmology of midday thought that crosses times and countries. Perhaps we are in the presence of this, the appearance of a beyond facing oneself taking on the features of a same, other than oneself? However, if the other leads to the birth and then the burial of civilization in brutalism, what remains? A condition and a heritage, a duty, and a common earthly destiny? Let us dive here into the Cistern to bathe amid solar videos and photographs by artists Ange Leccia, Christian Buffa, and Fethi Sahraoui. Let us listen in these depths to the voice of Jean-Philippe Toussaint, to measure the price of the true, the just, and the beautiful, all three named, captured, and restored to encourage the sharing of a Mediterranean in common.
The exhibition is part of the UNESCO Chair on Futures in the Mediterranean at the University of Corsica supported by Vito Corse, and the Boost Cultural Competences in Corsica project financed by the State-Region Collectivity of Corsica-State Plan Contract.