The Moon is my Disco Ball and the Stars are Confetti

Research Residency 

Mohamed Al Bakeri

15.02.25 – 14.03.25

 

Restitution 15.03.25 – 18h

“A double room with one queen size bed”

Mohamed Al-Bakeri’s lecture-performance is divided between a moment of hushed reading about opacity and the art of saying without saying, and a sound sequence in which the narrator exposes his anxiety about an encounter, his paranoia and his mistrust. These thoughts are interwoven with a deafening urban soundscape, saturated with glitches and repetitions, where the din of the city gradually engulfs the voice.

How does the withholding of information become a language in itself? To what extent can the injunction to transparency be a tool of control? These are the questions that permeate his research that explores the dynamics of the visible and the invisible.

Mohamed Al-Bakeri (*1991) is an Egyptian-Yemeni artist based in Egypt. He holds a Master of Arts in Public Spheres from EDHEA, Switzerland and is one of five founding members of the artist group K-oh-llective. Al-Bakeri is currently exploring Glissant’s concept of ‘opacity,’ to investigate how remaining opaque can function as both a language and a space to protect oneself from being othered or subjected to the increasingly oppressive structures, and dominant gaze. The research focuses primarily on the Egyptian context, with connections to non-European parallels. His practice spans video, sound, installation, text, and most recently, painting.

The lecture performance was followed by a meal prepared by Clara Roumégoux.

Graphic Design : Clio Hadjigeorgiou

Photography : Román Alonso

Vernissage 27.03.25 - 18h / a night of barely an hour and a half / Juli Sando & Alex Ghandour / 29.03.2025 - 26.04.2025