Moufida Fedhila
Video
The Outsider
Tunisia/France, 2015, 00:03:20
Production: Yol Film House
Color: Color
Format: 16/9
To disappear, to escape from authority, the standard, the framework... to become vaporous, to no longer stay in place, to be in unfastened movement, united floating territories sailing toward an aesthetic of absence.
Super-Tunisian_Extra Time
Tunisia, 2012, 00:06:43
Performance - Dream City Biennale
Production: Moufida Fedhila
Color: color
Format: 16/9
“One should go to theatre as one goes to a soccer game”, Ionesco said. Moufida Fedhila seizes the ground to provide a performance combining dance, theatre and poetry... Staging two teams of “Super-Tunisians”. The artist moves the thresholds and limits of the citizen-performers by inventing new bodily geographies... all in a dynamic, diverted, pathetic soccer confrontation... opening on to a space and time-shared by the participants’ solidarity. This performance actively highlights the relationship between art and life.
Citizen-performers are invited to write the Super-Constitution.
Super-Tunisian_St'art
Tunisia, 2011, 00:06:59
Performance
Production: Moufida Fedhila
Color: color
Format: 16/9
In May 2011, four months after the fall of Ben Ali, Moufida Fedhila incarnated Super Tunisian, in reference to the iconic Superman. She paced Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis dressed as Superhero. She promised to citizen-passersby to revolutionize their country thanks to her super powers. A Super Country ruled by a Super Hero resolving all the super problems ... A scathing parody full of humor of the demagogic political speeches that where then legion and are continuing to saturate the public sphere.
(Aurélie Machghoul)
The Noise of Silence
Italy, 2007, 00:04:22
Production: Moufida Fedhila
Color: B&W
Format: 4/3
In her video The Noise of Silence, the Tunisian artist Moufida Fedhila presents images of a ghetto-like urban environment in an Italian town where African immigrants live surrounded by a high wall, secluded from other parts of the city. The stern, black-and-white aesthetic and the use of slow tracking shots bear a strong resemblance to images from the liberated concentration camps and convey an atmosphere of anxiety and unease. (Video-Dialogue: Aus-Land/Berlin by Charlotte Bank)
My Island, video installation
France, 2007, 00:04:47
Production: Moufida Fedhila
Color: B&W
Format: 16/9
In 2008, Moufida Fedhila continues to reflect on the walls, territories and the movement of bodies in a solo exhibition entitled My Island. On the wall appears a cartographic work, My Island, where the world is redrawn, disfigured by building walls on both sides of the world map. The artist offers a world map developed and reconstructed from these walls of shame: Zimbabwe, Israel, the US, Italy, North Korea etc. The work is accompanied by a silent video that chronicles the actions of each one. (Julie Crenn)