Galerie Claude Lemand

BISSANE AL-CHARIF,
 Missing Sky, 2014. Film.
 Love Stories ..., 2016. Vidéo.

Donation Claude & France Lemand 2020.
Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris.
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Missing Sky, Bila Sama, Sans Ciel, 2014. Video on stop motion, 2:27, by Mohamad Omran & Bissane Al-Charif

This video is a dia­logue between the place and its appear­ance, between the city and its memory, between the dev­as­ta­tion and its repro­duc­tion on the screen. A dia­logue between the doc­u­men­ta­tion of places and their restruc­turing in our imag­i­na­tion. It is also a dia­logue between two artists with dif­ferent back­grounds: Bissane Al-Charif is a scenog­ra­pher and her hus­band Mohamad Omran is a sculptor.
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Love Stories in hot coun­tries, Asmahan, 2016. Video, 4:30.

This video was made as part of the art instal­la­tion I Once Entered a Garden (Asmahan’s famous song), by Bissane Al Charif & Chrystèle Khodr.

"You were born on water and in water you will perish". A pre­dic­tion made to a teenage girl who was born Amal (Hope) on the Mediterranean and died Asmahan in the Nile. Her story is the story of her time and her region, our region. It is through this his­tory that we try to re-appro­priate a body that we knew well, that of our ado­les­cence, the one that car­ried our loves.