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The Ball of the Ogresses
Culture · Wednesday, October 21 · 12:00 · Paris
Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), 19 rue Léon
Free
Ogress says, goddess, Moroccan, Canaanite, djinn, marabout, seductive, monstrous, feminine, animal… Aïcha Kandisha is all of this at once and more. On the occasion of the Mediterranean Season led by the Institut Français, the ICI team continues its mentorship with invited curator Sonia Recasens – initiated in 2024 with L’esprit du geste, the inaugural exhibition of the renovated spaces of the ICI Léon. She accompanies this time 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…
