Adios Sahara (2021-2023)
Adios Sahara is a project produced between 2021 and 2023 that aims to explore our relationship with travel and the distorting cultural prism through which we perceive reality.
In this project, I confront two coexisting realities within this predominantly ochre country. On one hand, there is the idealized, exotic nation—a long-standing construct of Western imagination, brought to life in highly touristic areas such as the Merzouga dunes in the Sahara. On the other hand, there is the real Morocco, often raw and marked by poverty, where street scenes reveal a complex culture that starkly contrasts with the unconscious projections of the Western world.
Adios Sahara was exhibited during the summer of 2023 in Vevey at the Espace Entre Deux-Gares, with the support of Vevey's Office de la Culture and Migros. With the exhibition, a self-published edition of 100 copies was released in October 2023.