Pulsating Pain Between Thumb And Finger

Saâd TAZI

The world around us, challenges us at every moment. Little by little, the eye picks up the pieces forming the insignificant parts of the map of an imaginary territory. Nothing spectacular, just a celebration of simplicity and an invitation to watch.
Every day, we travel for miles to connect one point to another by going to the "essential", that is to say, looking at nothing. The journey becomes a dead space that needs filling. Through reading, through music or simply fatigue.
In today's world which beats the freedom of trade, freedom of movement seems to vanish gradually. A bit like the chess player Stephan Zweig mentally reconstructs the parts without physical support, I try to reconstruct the territories near the borders and walls that rise up to separate people "often" other. We can go through these areas without restriction and without trial. Just for fun to share, to reconcile and give to see the beauty in the simplicity of what surrounds us.

EXHIBITIONS: * 2009

. International Festival of Photography. Oujda
Portraits * 2005. SNAP. Gallery Bab el Kebir. Rabat. Morocco
A * 2005 quatro mano, working with Mounat Charrat, El Piropo. Bilbao. Spain.
* 1992: The streets of Paris, Postern of Poplars, Paris.
* 1987: Attitudes on the market, House of Cultural Activities, Talence.


SOLO SHOWS

* 2008 Trip Report, Southern Morocco. House of the Americas, Washington DC
* 2006 "The Road to Ithaca". Galerie Mohamed El Fassi. Rabat
* 2006 My short stories. French Institute in Fes
* 2005 My short stories. French Institute of Casablanca
* 2005 Festival of Asilah. The traveler still, book a trip fictitious
* 2002 All these walls that surround us. El Piropo. Bilbao. Spain. * 2002
Communal areas, places of (my) memory. Amphytrium. Casablanca. Morocco
* 2002 Florence Siena made at the Palace Romorantin. Romorantin. France.
* 1999 Zen. Ameet Nanji's Performance Studio, Santa Monica. USA.
* 1997 Blue. Gallery Omar Khayam. Casablanca. Morocco.
Shadows * 1996, Open Letter. Paris. France.
1993 routes, Crossroads Books, Casablanca. Morocco.


Books
Atlantic Sahara. Splendors of the Moroccan desert. Crossroads. Casablanca.
Khaimah. The black tent of the desert. Marsam. The palm of Casablanca
Asrir. Crossroads. Casablanca.
ONA Foundation's collection. ONA Foundation.


saad@tazi.net