Poem/me xx1. Listening session/Hybrid reading

Ikram Bouloum is the third guest of the series of actions entitled “The Chairs of Tàpies. Invoking the crack”.

With Poem/me xx1, the artist reappropriates narrative space, presenting a listening session/hybrid reading in the form of a plurilingual narration, bringing together diverse memories, poems, songs and images. This body of work allows her, for one, to introduce the notion of fissure that runs through her album: the inherited wound. On the other hand, the context that goes along with this narrative movement moves from the intimate to the collective, tracing a path towards diaspora.

Ikram Bouloum is a Catalan-Amazigh artist, selector and curator. After various years working primarily as a musical programmer and artistic director, she is currently reviving and recentring her artistic and research practice, reconnecting with the voice, storytelling and music, with a multidisciplinary and anti-disciplinary approach.

In her music, which she mostly performs in her native Amazigh language from the Rif region, she explores subjects that the North African diaspora oftens finds difficult to address, reimagining legacies through an experimental vision that is both poetic and political.

Series “The Chairs of Tàpies” are curated by Judith Barnés.

[Photography: Lúa Oliver]