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The Ball of the Ogresses
Culture · Sunday, October 18 · 12:00 · Paris
Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), 19 rue Léon
Free
Ogresse, goddess, Moroccan, Canaanite, djinn, marabout, seductive, monstrous, feminine, animal… Aïcha Kandisha is all of that at once and more. For the Mediterranée Season hosted by the Institut français, the ICI team continues its collaboration with the guest curator Sonia Recasens – started in 2024 with L’esprit du geste, the inaugural exhibition of the renovated spaces of the ICI Léon. This time she accompanies her new project, which takes as its starting point the legends surrounding Aïcha Kandisha, in order to explore the many figures of ogresses that populate the im…
