A Place to Be
A Place to Be
sahab museum at Palais de Tokyo
An immersive installation presented at Palais de Tokyo exploring a fictional journey between Gaza and an imagined museum in the clouds.
Visitors interact with a system allowing them to curate their own exhibition from artworks created during workshops.
Vue d'exposition, Mohamed Bourouissa, SIGNAL, Palais de Tokyo, 16.02.2024 - 30.06.2024. Crédit photo Aurélien Mole. © ADAGP, Paris,2024
Presented for the first time at Palais de Tokyo, the work conceived by hawaf collective plunges us into the fantastic story of a tigress who sets out to meet the world of humans, through an immersive installation that takes us from Gaza City to the sky and sahab museum. At the same time, thanks to a terminal system, an interactive experience invites visitors to design their own exhibition based on a collection of paintings by artists from Gaza. Visitors can create a collection of paintings within the film, which mingle with other forms, elements, sculptures and imaginaries created during workshops with children in France. Through its various connections, here and elsewhere, the museum becomes a sensitive platform for connecting the creation of Gaza with that of the rest of the world. The terminals also offer the public the chance to become members of hawaf association and, in return for a donation, obtain a poster made from their selection of works to support the development of sahab museum project.
This invitation to delve into sahab museum, its origins, its collections,
but also the dream from which it sprang engages in the real the
implementation of a vision: through the construction of the museum, to
rebuild the community.
Vue d'exposition, Mohamed Bourouissa, SIGNAL, Palais de Tokyo, 16.02.2024 - 30.06.2024. Crédit photo Aurélien Mole. © ADAGP, Paris,2024
Full Credits
A Place to Be
مكان لتكون
Installation multimédia / Mixed media installation
2024
Crédits / Credits
Direction artistique / Artistic direction
Collectif Hawaf
Coordination du projet / Project coordination
Margot Nguyen
Suivi de projet / Project manager
Marine Dury
Réalisation et co-production du film / Movie direction and co-production
Iconem (Naéma Poli, Galdric Robert, Elina Thoumieux et Yves Ubelmann)
Hara Productions
Production du système interactif / Interactive system production
EBB (Neil Beloufa, Florian Fournier et Pierrick Saillant)
Scénario et texte du film / Scenario and text
Salman Nawati & David H. Pickering
Voix / Voice
Hiam Abbass
Dessins / Drawings
Khaled Jarada
Architecture Sahab Museum / Sahab Museum architecture
Sondos Al-Nakhala
Sélection de la collection d’oeuvres / Artworks selection
Marion Slitine et Salman Nawati
XR pour Hawaf / XR for Hawaf
Andres Burbano
Musique / Music
LILA
Post-production, mixage, mastering / Post-production, mixing and mastering
Éliane Blaise alias æfv
Enregistrement et studio son / Voice recording and sound studio
Christophe Jacques / KREISSTUDIO
Graphisme / Graphic design
Louis Rémy
Traduction / Translation
Nisrine Al-Zahre et le Centre des langues de l’Institut du Monde Arabe
Sous-titrage / Subtitles
Hamza Maysarah, Margot Nguyen & David H. Pickering
Avec le soutien / with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée et Art Explora.
