"Display" - Sara Ouhaddou

In the organizer's words:

In her artistic practice,Sara Ouhaddou explores the relationship between craftsmanship and art. In her solo exhibition "Display" at ifa-Galerie Berlin, she explores how the two intertwine and blurs the boundaries of classic "commissioning". Moroccan handicrafts were included in their diversity, commissioned or produced jointly with the artisans. The exhibition is accompanied by a sound installation by composer Leila Bencharnia, which responds to Sara Ouhaddou's work.

Sara Ouhaddou lives and works between Morocco and France. Born in France to a Moroccan family, her artistic practice is characterized by a constant dialogue between the two cultures. In her work, she strives for a balance between traditional art forms and the conventions of contemporary art and attempts to bring new perspectives to cultural practices that have fallen into oblivion. She explores historical sites and objects, works site-specifically and creates works based on encounters with communities, craftspeople and scientists. Each of her works is a project of learning, exchanging knowledge and sharing intimate or universal stories.

COLLECTIVE PATTERNS
A textile form workshop

as part of the exhibition Display. Sara Ouhaddou

How can craft, art and design enter into a dialog with each other, give each other impulses and grow together? In Display, the artist and designer Sara Ouhaddou traces the processes of her many years of collaboration with craftspeople in Marrakech. As an extension and activation of the exhibition, the ifa-Galerie Berlin invites you to an open textile workshop for 8 weeks. It offers space to translate your own patterns and form ideas, but also form questions from the exhibition, into your own form alphabet, to experiment with fabrics, application techniques and embroidery and to become part of a collective, textile work of art.

The workshop is open to young and old, families, interested people or textile nerds and can be used freely during the regular opening hours of the ifa Gallery Berlin. No previous knowledge is required!

Opening: September 11, 2024, 7 pm, as part of Berlin Art Week
Artist talk: September 12, 2024, 3 and 4 pm
3 pm: with Sara Ouhaddou and the curators Meriem Berrada and Alya Sebti
4 pm with sound artist Leila Bencharnia and curator Alya Sebti