Côte à Côte is a project created by Yassine Balbzioui and Matteo Rubbi and curated by Susana Moliner ofLa Companyia and Emiliana Sabiu of Cherimus as part of the 12th edition of Curators Zone. It is being supported by AC/E through the mobility grants awarded under the PICE.
Founded in 2013, Le Cube is an independent art room whose purpose is to highlight curatorial practice by inviting prominent curators who can contribute new visions and dimensions to create and exhibit. Le Cube gives curators “carte blanche” to install a temporary project resulting from a process of reflection during their visits to the artists in residence at Le Cube.
For the second Curators Zone, during her stay in Rabat from 1 to 12 November 2014, Susana Moliner, a member of La Companyia – a group of Spanish curators – in partnership with the Italian association Cherimus, organised the Côte à Côte (Coast to coast) project, which will be officially presented on 20 November.
Côte à Côte is a project created in situ by the Italian artist Matteo Rubbi and the Moroccan artist Yassine Balbzioui, which takes place first in Rabat (Morocco) and later in Perdaxius, Sardinia. The artists deal with the social and subjective process that unfolds between these southern coastal cities.
For their research, the sky becomes the basis for reflection, the common space between the hemispheres of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The night sky is a physical space where the two “coasts” can meet, where it is possible to establish a dialogue between the artists and their communities, Moroccan and Italian. The sky of Rabat is that of a major city set between mountains and desert. In Perdaxius, located on the coast of Sardinia, the night sky still unfailingly offers resistance.
In this inexplicable common heritage Yassine Balbzioui and Matteo Rubbi attempt to understand the areas where life is emerging and where everyday experiences go beyond the pure and rigid boundaries of identity, discovering the “coasts” that classify as well as the “coasts” that are used to breathe, to live.
Founded in 2013, Le Cube is an independent art room whose purpose is to highlight curatorial practice by inviting prominent curators who can contribute new visions and dimensions to create and exhibit. Le Cube gives curators “carte blanche” to install a temporary project resulting from a process of reflection during their visits to the artists in residence at Le Cube.
For the second Curators Zone, during her stay in Rabat from 1 to 12 November 2014, Susana Moliner, a member of La Companyia – a group of Spanish curators – in partnership with the Italian association Cherimus, organised the Côte à Côte (Coast to coast) project, which will be officially presented on 20 November.
Côte à Côte is a project created in situ by the Italian artist Matteo Rubbi and the Moroccan artist Yassine Balbzioui, which takes place first in Rabat (Morocco) and later in Perdaxius, Sardinia. The artists deal with the social and subjective process that unfolds between these southern coastal cities.
For their research, the sky becomes the basis for reflection, the common space between the hemispheres of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The night sky is a physical space where the two “coasts” can meet, where it is possible to establish a dialogue between the artists and their communities, Moroccan and Italian. The sky of Rabat is that of a major city set between mountains and desert. In Perdaxius, located on the coast of Sardinia, the night sky still unfailingly offers resistance.
In this inexplicable common heritage Yassine Balbzioui and Matteo Rubbi attempt to understand the areas where life is emerging and where everyday experiences go beyond the pure and rigid boundaries of identity, discovering the “coasts” that classify as well as the “coasts” that are used to breathe, to live.