ARTifariti 2016: 10th International Art and Human Rights Meeting in Western Sahara

Rima Djahnine  / Hazy Line /

“The light doesn’t stopover on you.

 

It passes through you without lingering over.

 

 

Your shadow is suffering, it is not worn

 

Your signature (your trace) flies

 

 

You persist in believing that she is not in solitude,

 

You finally give up your body on the way;

 

 

Your shadow is trying to catch you.

 

She agrees;

 

 

There’s no need for this body

 

The shadow is tearing apart.

 

 

It separates

 

She's bleeding

 

 

For no more track,

 

No more edge.”

 

 

In this text, Rima tells the story of a person who slides into madness because she is far from her homeland. Exile is a topic close to the heart of the artist who had to tragically leave Algeria in the 90s and only returned in 2013.