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The Ball of the Ogresses
Culture · Sunday, October 25 · 12:00 · Paris
Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), 19 rue Léon
Free
Ogresses, goddess, Moroccan, Canaanite, djinn, marabout, seductive, monstrous, feminine, animal… Aïcha Kandisha is all of that and more. On the occasion of the Mediterranean Season carried by the Institut français, the ICI team continues its fellowship with invited curator Sonia Recasens – started in 2024 with L’esprit du geste, the inaugural exhibition of the renovated spaces of ICI Léon. This time she accompanies her new project, which takes as a starting point the legends surrounding Aïcha Kandisha, to explore the many figures of ogresses that populate the im…
