Lichtpause

LICHTPAUSE tells a day in Algiers, from early morning to night, and takes us on a long walk through the city. The voice of the narrator mingles with the voices of her friends, who comment, interpret, ask, answer. It is about the air, the traffic, the sea, the presence of violence, the money, the oil, the layers of pasts that are deposited in architecture. In the eyes of the Europeans on Algiers and the possibility of friendship, despite the echo of history and the current situation.

The book was created during two stays of the artist in Algiers, between September 2016 and April 2017. The work on text and drawings was above all a reason to listen, to observe, to find a look that is searching and does not necessarily mean to understand. A perspective that constantly questions itself, dedicates itself to fleetingness and attempts to grasp conditions that pass by and yet remain as holey memories. The result is an impressive travelogue in fragments, in poetic snapshots from constantly reassembling perspectives.