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The Ball of the Ogresses
Show · Friday, October 16 · 12:00 · Paris
Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), 19 rue Léon
Free
Ogresse, goddess, Moroccan, Canaanite, djinn, marabout, seductive, monstrous, feminine, animalistic… Aïcha Kandisha is all of that and more. On the occasion of the Mediterranean Season led by the Institut français, the ICI team continues its collaboration with guest curator Sonia Recasens — initiated in 2024 with L’esprit du geste, the inaugural exhibition of the renovated spaces of the ICI Léon. This time she accompanies this new project, which takes the legends surrounding Aïcha Kandisha as a starting point to explore the many figures of ogresses that populate the imaginaire…
