Kuc, Kamila (2023) Her Plot of Blue Sky. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | Kuc, Kamila |
Description: | Fused with the poignant words of a Moroccan human rights activist Rachida Madani’s poem, Tales of a Severed Head, Her Plot of Blue Sky is a relational glimpse into the joys and struggles of a group of Amazigh women in a care home in Sefrou, Morocco. While the women engage in creating visual diaries of their everyday lives, many of their experiences of abuse, alienation, loss and poverty, are captured in one particular resident’s story. Like other women in the care home, Fatima too struggles to survive in a society that, more often than not, undermines women’s existence. By taking their own images, the women reclaim their power to be themselves. The images they create - of themselves and others - are playful yet harrowing, they point to the invisibility of women, non-hetero normative, neurodiverse, functionally diverse and elderly people in media more general. |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | disability, neurodiversity, Africa, Morocco, abuse, trauma, sexual abuse |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | 3 March 2023 |
Funders: | Arts Council England, Culture Vulture, Morocco, Coventry University |
Related Websites: | https://www.spectrumoftheeveryday.com/, https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/the-survivor-lens-reframing-trauma-narratives-through-filmmaking/, https://www.kamilakuc.com/her-plot |
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Related Exhibitions: | Spectrum of the Everyday, Voxonica, London, ‘The Survivor Lens: Reframing Trauma Narratives through Filmmaking’, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Spectrum of the Everyday, Voxonica, London 11 November 2022 16 November 2022 The Survivor Lens: Reframing Trauma Narratives through Filmmaking, Whitechapel Gallery, London 25 February 2023 |
Material/Media: | short film |
Measurements or Duration of item: | 22 mins |
Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2023 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 14:36 |
Item ID: | 19762 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/19762 |
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