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The Ball of Ogresses
Culture · Wednesday, October 7 · 12:00 · Paris
Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), 19 rue Léon
Free
Ogress, goddess, Moroccan, Canaanite, djinn, marabout, seductive, monstrous, feminine, animal… Aïcha Kandisha is all of this at once and more.\n\nOn the occasion of the Mediterranean Season led by the Institut français, the ICI team continues its collaboration with the invited curator Sonia Recasens – begun 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 a starting point the legends surrounding Aïcha Kandisha, in order to explore the many figures of ogresses that populate the imaginatio…
