TRYST ART FAIR BY TORRANCE ART MUSEUM: Between Lands and Horizons (2025)

At a time when the world seems to withdraw behind visible and invisible borders, these four artists propose a shift in our gaze. Their works through photography, performance, installation, and drawing, do not seek to explain; they reveal. They speak of migration, memory, anchoring, and passage, not through didactic means but through resonance. Their works address not the map, but the body, memory, and imagination.

Halida Boughriet explores the threshold through performance: a fleeting gesture at the water’s edge becomes an act of dignity, a body turned archive and breath. Salim Le Kouaghet weaves a quiet resistance, combining text and textile into a visual language where the personal meets the collective. Dalel Tangour brings together sea and sky into a sensory composition a poetic mapping of absence and displacement. Bilal Bahir works with memory like one handles a puppet or a relic: drawing from childhood, archives, and gestures of preservation, he reconstructs a world of fragmented stories and visual intuitions.

Influenced by philosophies of otherness (Levinas), rhythm (Bachelard), or the image as threshold (Didi-Huberman), these works chart trajectories where migration is not merely geopolitical but existential. Here, each artistic gesture echoes what Merleau-Ponty described as a “phenomenology of the visible”: a way of inhabiting the world through experience and perception.

In a world saturated with binary narratives, Between Lands and Horizons opens a space for nuance not to illustrate current events, but to blur their contours. To invite each viewer to shift their own point of observation, and to receive within the image what once lay outside the frame.

© AYN Gallery - Curated by Yasmine Azzi-Kohlhepp