Artistic looks

The artistic project Noria by choreographer and dancer Anna Chirescu draws inspiration from the hydraulic machines that have been installed in El Carpio in order to weave a narrative around the imagination of the place, encompassing elements of constraint, relaxation, stillness, and spinning.

Shapes of Earth by Sanja Vrzić and Diogo Pereira explores the link that the station maintains with the multisecular constructive tradition of the Djerid oases, through a contemplative film which captures the process of the transformation of raw clay into brick, and then in architecture.

With MCTunis, Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout capture the bustle of the market through their photographic exchanges on the social network Instagram, and transcribe it in a work of multicoloured collages inspired by neo-Moorish motifs.

Archaeologists and architects attempts to rediscover the original appearance of the bey’s palace before it was “orientalized” by the French military in the neo-Moorish style from the 1860s onwards using traces of ancient decorations, plans from Spanish archives and drawings from the very beginning of the French occupation.

With his film Vijećnica, Nicolas Callaway offers an animated short film designed with rubber stamps that reproduce the geometric patterns of the scenery. The elements come to life as they are constructed, deconstructed and turned upside down, reflecting the tormented history of this emblematic building.