JAOU PHOTO
Kamel Lazaar Foundation
Lira Building, Rue de L’île de Malte, Les Jardins du Lac, Les Berges du Lac 2, Tunis, Tunisia
The Kamel Lazaar Foundation and the French Institute of Tunisia are organising Jaou Photo, which will open from 6-20 October 2022 in Tunis, alongside an outreach programme to the country's cities outside the capital (Sfax and Sousse). Jaou returns for its sixth edition after the impact of a global health crisis under the theme ‘the body in all its dimensions, with a focus on photography, image making and moving images more broadly. With its location in Tunis at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, the Arab World and Africa, Jaou Photo aims to bring together photographers and artists from all walks of life alongside galleries, art critics, intellectuals, and academics in an event of international scope.
For the sixth edition of JAOU Tunis, from October 6 to October 20, 2022, KLF is responding to the worsening economic and political conditions of the country. There will be a citywide exhibition, ‘Our Time, Even in Dreams’, of photographic works by more than 100 artists, among them Joiri Minaya, Mouna Karray, and Athi-Patra Ruga displayed on public billboards and curated by Karim Sultan. ‘A Wake Up Song Mr. President’, is a pop-up exhibition curated by Andrea Bellini of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva (BIM) and Lina Lazaar, which presents highlights from the last ten years of BIM at the historic sixteenth-century Abdellia Palace in the La Marsa suburb of Tunis and includes Hannah Black and Mandy Harris Williams, amongst others. ‘What Can We Learn and Unlearn When We Speak Together’ is a symposium led by Stephanie Bailey, formerly editor of the KLF-supported online platform for visual culture, Ibraaz, and now at Art Basel, with participants including curator Simon Njami, the transnational online radio station, Radio Alhara, academics Joan Kee and Dr Huda Tayob, and artists Evan Ifekoya, Musquiqui Chihying, Gabrielle Goliath, Ho Tzu Nyen, Khookha McQueer, Hito Steyerl, and The Otolith Group.
This event is hosted by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and the French Institute of Tunisia. Curated by Karim Sultan , Olfa Feki , Simon Njami, Andrea Bellini and Amira Zili. Institutional partners: Tunis City Hall, the Tunisian National Tourism Office (ONTT), the “Tounes Wijhetouna” Program (funded by the EU), the French Institute in Paris, the Embassy of Switzerland in Tunis, the Italian cultural Institute and the Goethe Institute. Partner cultural venues: Central Tunis // 32 bis // B7L9. With support from : Orange Tunisia // Le 15 Tunis.
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