Fredj Moussa
Solar Noon - Film - 11min - 2022
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 24
Film
In North Africa, between the tip of the Atlas Mountains and the Saharan Platform, a dry lake separates the Mashreq (the rising) from the Maghreb (the setting). Against all odds, it is a perpetually changing landscape. Solar Noon reinvents its coordinates, grafting fragments of narratives onto it in the form of tableaux vivants where different beliefs, symbols and rituals intersect in a composite imaginary perspective. The film shifts the reality of the desert into the realm of myth, exploring its layers of stories, revealing buried memories. Determined by the sun, Solar Noon composes with its zenith.
Fredj Moussa
Fredj Moussa (born in 1992 in Paris) lives and works between France and Tunisia. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2018. Fredj Moussa resided at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2019 and studied at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains from 2021 to 2023.
Fredj Moussa's work consists of films and steel structures, with an uncertain status, blurring the lines between sculpture and cinematographic presentation devices.
He has exhibited his work at Nuit Blanche in Paris (FRA), Loop Fair Barcelona (ESP), Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia (USA), Izmir Mediterranean Biennial (TUR), Cabane B (CHE), and Les Brasseurs (BEL), among others. Fredj Moussa's films have been selected for international festivals, including the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (CZE).
He was a finalist for the Studio Collector Award at the Festival Photo Days at the MEP in Paris in 2022. Fredj Moussa received the CIFRA Prize at Loop Fair Barcelona in 2023.
