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The Ball of the Ogresses
Culture · Friday, October 30 · 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 this at once and more. On the occasion of the Méditerranée Season supported by the French Institute, the ICI team continues its partnership with guest curator Sonia Recasens – started in 2024 with L’esprit du geste, inaugural exhibition of the renovated ICI Léon spaces. She accompanies this time her new project, which takes as its starting point the legends surrounding Aïcha Kandisha, to explore the many figures of ogresses that populate the im…
