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“Tawaf (at-tawâf), circumambulation, refers to the seven laps that Muslims perform around the Kaaba, during the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca” wikipedia 2024 In this video work, I explore the parallels between some spiritual practices in islam (Hajj) and in the Celto-Breton (Menhirs), imaging forms of non-verbal dialogue that can exist between certain communities in their "homelands" in the Global South and their diasporas in the Global North, and a form of attachment to certain sensory elements in a migratory context that can invoke a sense of familiarity and "déjà vu". Asetta (loom weaving in Tamazight) is an allegory for the accumulation of layers of experiences in diasporic and migrant bodies. This video was shot in collaboration with my mother, partly in M'Zab (Sahara, Algeria) and partly on the island of Ouessant (Bretagne, France).

Salah Chikh is an artist born and raised in Ghardaïa (Algeria) and now based in Marseille. they are currently preparing their DNSEP (Diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique) in Experimental Writing at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, and previously graduated with a Master's degree in Biodiversity and Evolution from the Faculty of Science in Montpellier and, before that, from the University of Oran (Algeria). Thier academic and personal background informs their artistic practice, exploring issues of the movements and the places of bodies in different geopolitical and geographical spaces, with a particular focus on the “peripheral” physical spaces of the West. Their work incorporates a variety of media, from video and writing to performance.