We invite you to an open exchange with artist Leila Bencharnia about her sound piece ‘ⵖⵣⵍ غزل Ghzil’, which celebrates the passing on of knowledge of artisans across generations.
In response to Sara Ouhaddou’s work in the exhibition Display, Bencharnia will elaborate a musical composition featuring the mathematics of African fractals and the Amazigh alphabet as a musical notation. The piece centers around the language of ceramics, the rhythmic weaving of carpets from the Atlas Mountains and the color codes of Marrakech mosaics. It is a dedication to a deep listening to the material and aesthetics of their stories. Leila Bencharnia and ifa Gallery Berlin invite us to an open exchange about the sound piece “ⵖⵣⵍ غزلGhzil” and how it celebrates the transmission of knowledge that the craftspeople hold, through an intergenerational transition of technologies.
Born in Morocco, Leila Bencharnia is a sound artist, acousmatic interpreter, and musician based in Milan. Daughter of a traditional Moroccan musician, her dialogue with sound began in the village near the Atlas Mountains where she spent her childhood. Her sonic work is composed of analog material, including tapes, vinyl records, and synthesizers. She recognizes forms of radical listening as a modality of knowledge transmission. Bencharnia’s practice seeks to have an active role in the decolonizing of listening as a way to engage with social and political complexity.
