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Monabamaqueb (2022)

“Monabamaqueb” is a URL work inhabited by the question of the hybridity of Maghrebian-Quebec identity. Composed in the manner of a vertical frieze, the project gathers photographs, GIFs, drawings and soundtracks from a visual and performative research on auto-ethnography, the inhabitation of territory and the digestion of knowledge. The surrealist architecture of the work and its ambiguous intergalactic location momentarily suspend discourses on identity in order to deterritorialize its possibilities. The title is a contraction of Montrealer + North African + Berber + Arab + North African + Quebecer, and calls for an artistic practice of fragmentation and reconfiguration. Music credit: El American, Houcine Slaoui, 5:55.

✩ Mishmash Maghreb-Quebec, a text by Didier Morelli translated in Arabic by Lynn Kodeih.

 

Laïla Mestari

Laïla Mestari is a Moroccan-born artist living in Shikaakwa (Chicago) and Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). Anchored in a logic of assemblage, her interdisciplinary practice is driven by questions of multiple identities, cultural mutations and the reconfiguration of sign systems. Mestari holds a BFA from Concordia University and is currently completing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of several grants and awards (Joan Livingstone Merit Scholarship, FRQSC, Ada Lovelace Award, CALQ, CAC, Sarah Leaney Award, Irene F. Whittome Prize in Studio Arts, Valedictorian of the Faculty of Fine Arts), she has exhibited in Canada and Spain, and has collaborated in several multidisciplinary projects and group exhibitions, notably in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). Her work is represented by Artroduction (Galerie 3), is distributed by Vidéographe and is part of the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

 

Monabamaqueb est une oeuvre de Laïla Mestari, coproduite par Galerie Galerie avec le soutien du Conseil des arts du Canada.