"D'un Port à L'autre", Youssef Es-ssousy (invited by Mouhawalat Collective)

For the activation of Mahatta, Youssef Es-Soussy proposes "D'un Port à l'Autre", an interactive performative installation.

"D'un Port à l'Autre" addresses the dialectical relationship between the individual and his environment through a collaborative, performative installation. Youssef Es-Soussy engages the audience in a dynamic interaction, where each spectator plays a role in the narrative of a liquid being, leaving a mark on the artist's journey by his or her presence, shaping identity over time.

This performance explores notions of identity and change, the territories and troubling waters the artist experiments with. In the ongoing search for a landmark, a station, Es-Soussy invites the audience to reflect on the impact of personal experiences and interactions on the course of our lives. It's a meditation on the journey and experience of wandering, which carries the artist along in constant flux towards mutual influences with those around her, contributing to her construction.

The artist creates a visual allegory of these flows, combining landscape, sound, installation and performance.

Mahatta is a participatory installation that acts as a station for sharing and exchange. This station grows and shifts; its components multiply with each encounter. Like a plant that spreads throughout its environment, the installation is an archive in progress, recalling and listening to collective voices and shared opinions, questions, concerns, reflections, doubts, feelings, stories of attempts, perspectives, solidarity and common ground.

For the Art Explora Festival, Mouhawalat Collective (Diyae Bourhim & Ahmad Karmouni), will welcome to their Mahatta installation a selection of art students recently graduated from the INBA, to invest and activate the hybrid space of Mahatta through a series of in situ interventions that vary from day to day for the duration of the Festival. A wider circle, an invitation to explore the imaginaries and narratives that shape our collective understanding of the art world. This proposal interrogates the practical realities and struggles inherent in the creative process, exploring the expectations and realities of young artists in transition between the academy and the professional world.

Each graduate contributes to transforming Mahatta (the station) on a daily basis, making this space a landscape in constant evolution. Mahatta thus becomes a station where each passenger leaves his or her mark, enriching the space with individual and collective stories. Every day, the installation reinvents itself, capturing the diverse voices of the participants.