Mouna Karray

During this time of constraint, isolation and immobility, various discussions emerged about the changing world after the crisis…The reality might change indeed. However, new systems might appear, fresh lies will rise up and replace the previous ones. The illusion will remain - along with suffering. My work is born out of tensions, collapsing walls and vanishing systems do not soothe any of these. 

In time like this, my body is constrained but remains able to create. The series “Noir” echoes what we are experiencing: isolation, deprivation of movement and luck of freedom…  The air release, single connection with the outside world, is no longer an instrument to accomplish a « photographic act », but turns out to be a way to freedom. 

In time like this, creativity is a survival mechanism that ties with the imagination to escape boundaries and borders and to invent new territories. My ongoing series “Nous avons rendez-vous où les océans se rencontrent” is imaginary constructions from separates existences. At the space where oceans meet, I generate a metaphorical aesthetic of the encounter between peoples and cultures.