AN IMPRESSION AT ONE POINT IN THE PROCESS WITH AICHA JOSEFA TRINIDAD GOUOUI

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3

3 PM - 6 PM

Can the process be a piece when you are at a point in the research when you just have questions? Aicha Trinidad poses this question to spark an informal and friendly gathering and conversation this Sunday afternoon, as a wrap-up of her two-month residency at LE 18.

During her time here, Aicha has engaged with various individuals, exploring the stories they know or have heard about our feminine practice of love in pre colonial morocco and how these practices have led to other ways of working nowadays. In doing so, she also challenges the protocols and methodologies prevalent in Western research, particularly in how they approach orality and knowledge production in the southern mediterranean.

Aicha's work explores the potential of first-person writing and personal experiences to generate knowledge both inside and outside academia. She is currently working on her thesis titled Resistances of Knowledge, a curatorial project aimed at fostering a queer, feminist, and anti-colonial dialogue between Spain and Morocco. Her way of working includes diary writing, storytelling, drawing stories, and other accessible forms of expression, with a central theme in all her productions being her connection to the working class, to which she belongs. Aicha Trinidad is part of the collective Al'Akhawat, made up of six artists from the Spain-Morocco diaspora.

This residency programme is in collaboration with Hangar Barcelona (centre for arts production and research), supported by Acción Cultural Española AC/E (agency that orchestrates public support for the promotion of culture, both in Spain and overseas), and Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies (non-profit association based in Barcelona, whose aim is to promote artistic creation and the use of art as a tool for social transformation in the Mediterranean area).