{"uid":"ovZDGzGcxav8215E","type":"artist","tags":["instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"The naked feast \/Work in perpetual progress","summary":"This project is conceived in connection to \u201cThe Banquet,\u201d an installation presented at the 1- 54 Marrakech art fair and inspired by Judy Chicago\u2019s \u201cThe Dinner Party.\u201d It departs from the detention of Hajar Raissouni, a journalist sentenced last year for having an abortion. I focus on this crackdown on women\u2019s rights and imagine a dinner party, gathering women from the Moroccan civil society who stood in solidarity with Raissouni as \u201coutlaws\u201d, confessing their personal recourse to this illegal practice, in a petition reminiscent of the 343 Sluts Manifesto. \nThe conceptual premise of this work is multilayered. This commemorative dinner is served in ways that allow for the revival of indigenous crafts, through the display of linen embroideries and a menu composed of plants traditionally used for abortion. In contrast, Western-inspired furniture and crockery echoe the postcolonial questioning that frames my practice as a diasporic French-Moroccan artist. I also aim through this work to unearth the taboos surrounding anti-abortion laws in different contexts, departing from my milieu to explore in-situ, South American forms of female resistance (through crafts and herbal remedies). I approach the context-sensitive in-situ process as an affective notion that involves the community of interlocutors that conforms, receives and transforms my artistic practice. Ultimately, \"The Naked Feast\" indicates the need for a decolonial critique to account for the appropriation of the female body.","space":"I would like to reinforce the serial connection of this work with \"The Banquet\", a work presented at the Wedding Hall of the French Consulate (Marrakech). Thus, I suggest the Pereda Palace (the Brazilian Embassy, Argentina), a space charged with a French colonial history that echoes the conceptual framework of this project. Ideally, the project would invest the Wedding Hall\/reception room of the Embassy. Suggested dimensions: Around 15 sq meters of floor space, flexible (in-situ installation).","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":6,"names":"Amina","surname":"Benbouchta","email":"studioaminabenbouchta@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"14AV89131","address":"Quartier Les Princesses, Lot Chantimar, Rue 6, n\u00b0 159, R\u00e9sidence Les Ar\u00e8nes","city":"Casablanca","nacionality":"French-Moroccan","country_id":"140","birthdate":"1963-12-24T00:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1963-12-24T00:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+212660188150","web":"http:\/\/aminabenbouchta.com"}