Inachevés

Mixed media. 21x30. Output from residency All Around Culture, L'Art Rue, Tunisia, 2021 A work about the wounded of the Tunisian revolution. Names are written, then half-erased. Collage of an unknown female figure.

Inachevés is a research project on those wounded during the Tunisian Revolution. A recipient of the All Around Culture research grant in 2021, it is currently in production at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. The visual work focuses on the list of names of the revolution's wounded and the notions of absence and amputation.

Thirteen years, two thousand one hundred and forty-seven bodies, a revolution.

Like a phantom limb, some memories itch, ache, tingle without being there. To tell the story so as not to forget. To tell it again and again. To tell the bodies, the absence, the loss. The Tunisian Revolution left behind 2147 wounded, 2147 missing bodies—a living archive inscribed on the skin itself.

Carried by a text and a lone body on stage, Inachevés is a performance and a visual installation that carves its path through the space between memory and oblivion. It is a space of communion, a bridge between narration and protest, between individual memories and collective history where history finds its echo.

Output from residency All Around Culture, L'Art Rue, Tunisia, 2021. Between December 17, 2010 and January 25, 2011, the Tunisian revolution left 2,147 people wounded, left to fend for themselves after the fall of the regime. Forgotten by official history, they still bear the scars of an unfinished, mutilated struggle, just like their bodies.