Visual Notes of a Fieldwork Research: Lost Sceneries

This photography series deals with the idea of Lost Landscapes or Lost Sceneries, the changing landscape that bears the scars of man-made conflicts, territorial dominance and colonial entanglements. The echoes of natural matter extractions resonate through the barren plains and scarred mountainsides, where the natural balance has been disrupted and the voices of indigenous peoples silenced. 

Cluster of Matter (selected illustrations) :

Cluster of Matter is an exhibition whereby a new narrative around the paleontological heritage of the city of Metlaoui is introduced through drawings, installations and videos. The exhibition presents a reinvented visual index that aims to embody the paleontological richness of the southwest mining basin of Tunisia while capturing the reality of highly exploited yet forgotten land. 

This visual index regroups a register of speculations about the fauna and the flora that could have existed, the cross-sectional layers of sedimentary matter that could have survived and an altered replica of an archive that could have been preserved. The visual speculation about emblematic specimens of the region asserts itself as a way of criticizing the parts of history that were stolen under the cover of colonialism and the pretense of scientific research.