Artist Talk Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle

Artist Talk
Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle
20.03.2024 | 6 pm
Imane Djamil, Eleni Boutsika-Palles & Bettina Siegele

@Neue Galerie & online via Zoom (Meeting-ID: 897 6259 9761, Code: 375210)

The ARTIST TALK with the Moroccan photographer and visual storyteller provides further insights into the exhibition Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle and gives an understanding of Imane Djamil’s artistic practice. The focus will be on her “docu-drama style”, which she uses to share her personal reality with others. Using stories from mythology, Djamil mediates the present.

The event takes place in cooperation with the Institute for Architectural Theory and History / Department of Architectural Theory at the University of Innsbruck.

Imane Djamil is a self-taught, Moroccan-based visual storyteller who works on commissions and long-term projects. Her stories have been published in the New York Times, Le Monde and Libération, among others. She co-founded the collective KOZ with photographers M’hammed Kilito, Yasmine Hatimi and Seif Kousmate in 2020, as well as Cantara, a cultural entrepreneurship programme in Tarfaya (MAR). Djamil’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at A Room of One’s Own, Neimënster, European Month of Photography, Luxembourg (LUX), and Ma aka Maaya ka ca y yere kono, Bamako Biennale, Bamako (MLI) in 2023; Who is Photography For, Landskrona Festival (SWE). www.imanedjamil.com/

Eleni Boutsika-Palles is an architect and artist born and raised in Greece and currently living in Austria. She holds a Diploma in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, a Diploma in Scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and attended the Art & Science master’s degree programme at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
She has worked in the fields of architecture, theatre and film, developing a passion for speculative thinking in all scales.
Boutsika-Palles is co-editor of the magazine ADATO and since 2019 a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Architectural Theory UIBK.
Her research focuses on the theory and design of multi-sensory, interactive and narrative environments, whether physical or virtual, including exhibits, performative settings and urban landscapes. www.elenipalles.com/