Bouchra Khalili Morocco, 1975
Foreign Office. Hotel El Safir, 2015
C-Print.
100 x 125 cm.
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Foreign Office. Hotel El Safir , Ex-Aletti , Algiers City Center, Residence of the Black Panther Party delegation during the 1969 Pan African Festival of Algiers. Entrance of the former...
Foreign Office. Hotel El Safir , Ex-Aletti , Algiers City Center, Residence of the Black Panther Party delegation during the 1969 Pan African Festival of Algiers. Entrance of the former casino.
Foreign Office focuses on the period during which Algiers (between 1962 and 1972) became the "mecc of revolutionaries", hosting representations of many liberation movements from Africa, Asia and the Americas, such as Black Panther Party, Mandela's ANC, or PAIGC.
The series of photographs documents the ghostly places that once hosted the representations of these liberation movements, revealing the hollow dissipation of utopia, although still continuing to haunt the present-time.
Foreign Office focuses on the period during which Algiers (between 1962 and 1972) became the "mecc of revolutionaries", hosting representations of many liberation movements from Africa, Asia and the Americas, such as Black Panther Party, Mandela's ANC, or PAIGC.
The series of photographs documents the ghostly places that once hosted the representations of these liberation movements, revealing the hollow dissipation of utopia, although still continuing to haunt the present-time.