Abdessamad El Montassir
Abdessamad El Montassir is a storyteller whose backdrop is the Sahara. Born in 1989 in the Sahara in southern Morocco, he works between Boujdour and Marseille. He is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan and the École Normale Supérieure in Meknès. From 2017 to 2020, he was a research associate at IMéRA - Institut d'Études Avancées à Marseille. Working with scientists, citizens and activists, he is developing an artistic practice at the crossroads of research and creation. Steeped in personal histories as much as collective narratives, his works are the fruit of a meticulous process in which the collection of intangible testimonies revives oral memories that are often buried and silenced by a hegemonic official history. His works, which have eminently political, cultural and social dimensions, are imbued with a sense of resistance, whether it's a question of memory in the face of time, an oppressed voice that is difficult to express, or a reaction to an established order. Photo © Franck Alix for La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
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