Panel 1 (EN)
Saddie Choua
Saddie Choua is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She weaves new connections between images and sound fragments from popular culture, creating a pseudo-realistic imaginary world with her personal archives. She seeks to expose ongoing discriminatory practices in society and to awaken the viewer’s critical awareness, confronting them with their stereotypes and questioning their adherence to systems of domination.
Joachim Ben Yakoub
Joachim Ben Yakoub works in art, sometimes as a writer, sometimes as curator or dramaturge, usually in the Kitchen, a collective study and workspace in Brussels. He teaches aesthetic theory at Sint-Lucas Antwerp, where he conducts and promotes research in the arts as part of the SLARG (Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Group). He also works at erg (école de recherches graphiques) in Brussels where he facilitates research in the arts.
Mounir Eddib
Mounir Eddib is an artist who was raised in Oud-Winterslag in Genk, a working-class neighbourhood known for its decommissioned coal mines. As the grandson of a miner and the son of Amazigh parents from the Western Saharan borderlands, his autobiographical art is inspired by issues of belonging, the rawness of industrial landscapes and North African mythology. Eddib draws on Amazigh, Sahrawi and Islamic folk rituals and magical practices to imbue his art with amulet-like properties, and to re-imagine the forgotten histories of former mining sites.
Phillip Van den Bossche
Phillip Van den Bossche is coordinator of visual arts at Moussem in Brussels. He served as director of Mu.ZEE in Ostend from 2007 to 2019 and as curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven between 2001 and 2007. Together with Mohamed Ikoubaân, he recently co-curated Moussem Belgica – Histoires Transnationales at the Galerie d’Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi in Tangier. Van Den Bossche has given conferences in many museums and institutions, including the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, HISK in Ghent, WIELS in Brussels and MoMA in New York.
Panel 2 (FR)
Eric Van Hove
Eric Van Hove is an artist whose work highlights issues that are both local and global, which he strives to connect. His approach seeks to emphasize human universality as well as the singularities of places, individuals, and situations that shape it. His work combines Western conceptualism, decolonial approaches, and Japanese non-dualism. In 2014, he founded Fenduq, his studio in Marrakech: a collaborative workshop that aims to rejuvenate traditional technology and craft in the Moroccan context, thereby creating a hybrid form of art, design and industrial production that strives for a better socio-economic and aesthetic balance, while gauging the legacy and future of the relationship between contemporary art and society.
M'barek Bouhchichi
M’barek Bouhchichi is an artist who lives and works in Tahanaout, Morocco. His work gives shape to modes of expression that extend from an individual discourse toward broader social, poetic and historical systems. A singular voice runs through his practice, enabling a rewriting of the self. It is a process of thought that unfolds through acts that materialise in the exchange between idea and the experience of the work. His creations offer a dual reading: one rooted in the artist’s personal understanding, and the other open to sharing and interpretation.
Fatima Zohra Ait El Maati
Fatima-Zohra Ait El Maâti is an architecture graduate, who is currently active as an art consultant. Dividing her time between Belgium and Morocco, she has lent her inquiring lens to art institutions and communities to question the use and transformation of (public) space through art. In 2023 she founded Tayri in collaboration with Amazigh craftswomen from her native region of Iguerouane, Meknes. The project aims to protect these women from exploitative cooperative models and facilitates their right to self-determination.
Morad Montazami
Morad Montazami is an art historian, publisher and curator. Having worked as curator Middle East and North Africa at Tate Modern in London between 2014 and 2019, he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zamân Books & Curating to explore Arab, African and Asian modern and contemporary art. He has published essays on Farid Belkahia, Bahman Mohassess, Behjat Sadr, Hamed Abdalla, Jordi Colomer and Latif Al Ani, among others.
DJ SET
Monstera Occulta
Monstera Occulta is a Brussels-based DJ and sound curator whose sets summon a dancefloor of trance, rhythmic tension and percussive hypnosis. Drawing from the musical traditions of SWANA (Southwest Asia North Africa) countries and their diasporas, she crafts sonic landscapes where the body becomes a site of collective ritual. Her hybrid selections weave together minoritised voices, vocal archives, textured basslines and non-linear grooves. Moving between raw intensity and meditative sensuality, she turns the club into a space for altered listening and embodied transformation.
