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NARRATIVE MACHINES
Ghita Skali
Book Launch
Thursday, May 05, 2022
5 P.M
Atelier Assemblée
Triangle - Astérides
Friche la Belle de Mai
41 rue Jobin
13003 Marseille
An artist’s book disguised as a medical publication written by six fictional women characters from Morocco in free wheeling, Narrative Machines documents the recent work of artist Ghita Skali (born 1992 in Casablanca, lives in Amsterdam), and constitues in itself part of her work. Written in collaboration with Ayla Mrabet and Kaoutar Chaqchaq, Narrative Machines clothes truth with falsehood. With wry irony and a Google-translated English, it comments on paranoia, fake news, patriarchy, government and the media ganging together in the Maghreb (as everywhere else), but it also shows a chosen community of women who confide, support each other and laugh a good load
Narrative Machines, 2022
Textes: Kaoutar Chaqchaq, Ayla Mrabet, and Ghita Skali
Design graphique: Roxane Maillet
Copyediting: François Piron and Lucas Roussel
84 pages, 18 x 25 cm
ISBN: 978-2-918252-76-4
15 euros
Publisher: Paraguay Press et distribué par Les Presses du Réel.
Published with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and CAC Bretigny