Linge sur terrasse

English title: Linen on Terrace

Series title: Arab Shorts Distribution ( )

Director: Fadma Kaddouri    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Fadma Kaddouri, born in Rif Mountain, is a self-taught artist. Her photographs and videos often start as travelogues. These works bear witness to the position of the artist and her vision of the interior and exterior and its movement between various segments of Moroccan society: family, community, and dual identity. She lives and works in Grenoble.

Country: Morocco, France

Year: 2007

Synopsis: The idea for this video was conceived at the house of the artist’s parents where a strong wind blew the linen on the washing line. It suddenly appeared to the artist as though a striking crowd was trying to go out of its way; a static article became alive, free. The dance-like movement of the linen fight against the wind can be seen as a metaphor for those who search to escape their condition that is determined by their history. Nador is a city of transit, the border that separates Africa from Europe, therefore serving as a destination for a large number of sub-Saharan African immigrants who arrive with a dream of a new start. Most of them settle down by a thread of an indispensable border.