Alhal wa L'mouhal (The Condition and the Impossible) - A Trilogy is a 50-minute video installation, structured in three chapters, unfolding through the symbolic resonance of seven colours in a Zaouia. The interweaving of found footage of Moroccan mystical brotherhoods, such as the Gnawa and the Issawa, with Pina Danila Gambettola's performance, examines the concept of liberation in Zaouia as a praxis through myth, ritual and the body.

The work by Nabil Aniss, currently fellow at Scuola Piccola Zattere, navigates the tension between possession and agency, tracing the spiritual economies in which Jnun—spirits referred to as mluk or "owners"—occupy and claim dominion over bodies, demanding submission through trance, music, and sacrifice.
Through its fusion of archival material, performative embodiment, and speculative mythmaking, the installation crafts a new political ontology rooted in the irrational and the spectral.

It proposes a radical reconfiguration of normativity, where possession, devotion, and resistance converge as strategies of survival.

Featuring  Pina Danila Gambettola 
Music Nicolas Jaar

The screening of the video installation will take place over two weekends:
24-25 May 2025, 11 am - 7 pm
31 May and 1 June 2025, 11 am - 7 pm

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