Her film is an absurdist tale of the journey that the boards make, which ends just outside the capital Rabat, at the indigenous Ouled Sbita tribe. In recent years, the fertile farmland has been sold by the Ministry of the Interior to large real estate companies, without any form of compensation to the residents. During the film, it also becomes clear how corruption resonates in the censorship of critical reporting on this, such as the arrest and prosecution of investigative journalist Omar Radi last year.

Meanwhile, the floor is back. Using the film as a basis, Ghita is developing a multidisciplinary installation commissioned by Into The Great Wide Open, inviting visitors not only to watch but to experience this journey within the environment she creates for it.

About Ghita Skali
Ghita Skali (Casablanca, 1992) studied at Villa Arson in Nice (France) and completed the post-graduate programs at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon (2016) and De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2018-2020). The work of Ghita Skali is a first impulse for research around anecdotes that appeared in the media and were later forgotten and/or erased. For example: the construction of an Eiffel Tower in Fez in Morocco, the confinement of a spy duck in Cairo, a suspicious cardiological device invented by King Hassan II, the donkey tails of the sculpture by Rita McBride stolen by the residents of Mönchengladbach in Germany, or the statement in 2014 by an Egyptian army general who pretended to have invented a miraculous machine to cure AIDS.

In her approach, it is not so much about the truth of the anecdote but about mapping all possible branches of this tale, the contradictions, and dead ends of the many rumors that caused it. Ghita's projects have been seen at été 78 (Brussels), Project Space Festival (Berlin), Beirut Art Fair, 18 (Marrakech), Cube Independent Art Space (Rabat), Cairo Off Biennale, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris).

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