En. "Ouissem Moalla (born in Stockholm in 1990) works on the relationship between the collective imaginary and language. His artistic projects are based on the history of sensibilities and mentalities in a variety of spatial and temporal contexts. He questions psychological relationships to the environment, to materials, to forms, to time and more generally, to the various components of the living world.

His work parallels the performative act and ritualization of the production process through imaginary languages. He summons up the body, materials and movement in space using

heterogeneous components."

 

 

Fr. "Ouissem Moalla (né à Stockholm en 1990) travaille sur les relations entre imaginaire collectif et langage. Ses projets artistiques s'appuient sur l'histoire des sensibilités et des mentalités dans des contextes spatiaux et temporels variés. Il questionne les relations psychologiques à l'environnement, aux matières, aux formes, au temps et plus généralement aux divers composants du vivant. 

Son œuvre met en parallèle acte performatif et ritualisation dans le processus de production au travers de langages imaginaires. Il convoque à la fois le corps, les matériaux et le mouvement dans l’espace à partir de composantes hétéroclites."

"MONKEY" - Tokyo, 2018 - video documentary archive

In 2018, I was selected for an artistic research residency in the Tokyo area in Japan. My research project consisted of an anthropological observation of contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to ritual in order to compose a performative artwork.

"Monkey" is a wandering performance around the Meiji-jingū temple whose route ends on its southern axis. It is an analogy of the condition of a society whose support can be broken at anytime and whose entire structures rely on devices that allow to hold it's balance. In Japanese society hardships are carried and endured with resignation by the individual as for the environment, and how geographical , cultural and economical constraints prevent them from being remedied. 

 In such context, agility and flexibility, whether physical or mental, become preeminent to brute force and obstruction.

 

 

This is an archive made up of spectators' shots with unsuitable equipment.