The Comorian Contemporary Arts Festival began in Moroni at the beginning of the week. It will continue until November 28. The Facc, which has taken place every two years since 2012, has as its theme in this sixth edition the concept of “resisting”. Mahorese artists made the trip.
Resistance is in the spotlight at the Comorian Contemporary Arts Festival. Resist, a concept that takes on its full meaning in Moroni, which is hosting the Facc for the sixth time, this unmissable meeting for culture lovers. During each edition, people meet, relationships are formed, careers take on new momentum. “Simon Ndjami spoke of an artistic platform where energies, vitality, effervescence unfold and open up possibilities. An artist from Réunion at the Facc in Moroni meets a Mauritian exhibition curator who takes him to Dubai where he has never been. He then goes there to meet a Parisian gallery owner. It is exhibited in Paris. This is what the Facc brings in particular for the basic artistic side”, explains Fatima Ousseni, the president of the festival.
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Yasmine Thani, painter, is participating in this event for the third time. She presents three works there. Among them, a painting she painted, inspired by Ubuntu philosophical thought. “Ubuntu is a Bantu term, which means, in a truly reduced sense, there is no you without me. That is to say, I exist because we are together. The term resist made me think of this, I can't be alone. If I resist, it means there is something. If there is anything, there are other people. That's how I got the idea to do this work.”explains the painter.
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Nadjila Mladjao, lawyer, attended the opening of the festival. One work particularly marked the young woman because she was able to grasp all the nuances of the concept “resist”. “The work that particularly struck me is the one aptly titled resist. I find that it really symbolizes the theme of the festival. If only the technique: working with sheet metal, rusty to boot, put a form of aesthetics and beauty that emerges from it.”
The Festival continues until November 28. This edition was also an opportunity to pay tribute to two lovers of culture, and ardent defenders of the Facc. The first: Hassan Ahmed Halidi. He died two years ago. The second is Aboubacar Ben Said Salim, died on September 2, 2023, man of letters and author in particular “from the mercenary ball ».
Comoros: Mahorese artists at the contemporary arts festival
