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Atlas des Partirions Tissées 2022 / Centre d’Art Contemporain Le Quadrilatère - Beauvais

Sound installation - 5 tons of refined rock salt, audio cables, 19 floor-mounted speakers / 90 m² sound amplification system - 15-minute sound composition played on a loop - amplifier, SD card reader

This large Berber carpet is woven from a partition drawing inspired by traditional pictograms. Used by the women weavers of Beni Ouarin, in the Moroccan High Atlas, these geometric motifs refer to a system of secret codes, transmitted by generations of women. Without deflowering the story she was thus entrusted with, the artist proceeds to a graphic and sound translation of these motifs and creates a real "woven score": "These drawings woven in black on a white background, present themselves as schematic representations of the house, the territory, domestic activities, romantic relationships... Acoustic translation keeps secret the stories they give to hear. The stories are revealed in the sounds and their enigmas are embodied in the notes. Here the public is invited to lie down on the thick wool of the Atlas sheep and listen to the song of the motif."