Konstnären AZ OOR kommer att vistas och arbeta i Sala den 1 – 29 oktober.

AZ OOR (b. 1992, Aghmat, Morocco) is a visual artist, storyteller, and poet currently living between Marrakech and Rotterdam. An auto-proclaimed Amazigh Futurist, AZ OOR advocates for a poetic resurgence of indigenous consciousness and thinking processes within the Developmentocene, a temporal, narrative, colonial, and terraforming sphere.

By contemplating and listening to events, orality, archival material, plants, bestialities, ethnographical sludge, viral thoughts, cinematic crufts, and literary figures, AZ OOR’s visual vernacular oscillates between quasi-theater forms, fragmented texts, and scenographic vocality to articulate a living vocabulary for an Amazigh future that hasn’t yet happened and a nostalgia for something that didn’t exist.

AZ OOR’s recent body of work includes:

Oukaimeden (Stargate), a series of photographic-found-object collages and readings on UFOs, monarchic techno-utopianism, and Berbericerlation (an Amazigh perspective on developmental acceleration in Morocco).

The Fable of the Agronauts (work in progress), speculative storytelling circles weaving figures like the wandering peasant (Fellah Menkoub), the doubly dispossessed, and the Barbaresque/Berber Pirate to confront earthly combustion.

Issaffen N Irifi (Rivers of Thirst), a space-fiction on indigenous survivance, invoking lost geometries, technologies beyond the wheel, insurgent rams, proto-tribal defense machines, petrified yellings, iron birds, and sentient water, where the precolonial past inspires futurity.

Sonic Fossils, research exploring sound and electricity within the Amazigh imaginative landscape.

Aseklou n Ayour (The Moon Tree), a “spatial lullaby” on ecological decay and regeneration.

Al Falak Al Majdoub (The Entranced Orbit), a proto-Sufipunk tripartite gesture (visual, sonic, theoretical) interrogating modernity as a theology of electricity, indigenous survivance in a colonized world, and digital barzakh through Sufi cosmologies (jadhb, Islah, Tazkiyah, Baraka).

AZ OOR has exhibited, performed, and lectured internationally at venues including Drawing Room UK, MMVI Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Morocco, Le18 Marrakech, CRAC Occitanie and Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Market Gallery Glasgow, Chapter Arts Centre Wales, and Casco Art Institute in Utrecht. He has also participated in international artist residencies, including the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Moussem Nomadic Arts Center in Brussels, Matadero Madrid, Queens Collective in Marrakech, and Mothership in Tangier, among others.