Narrative Machines - book launch
Narrative Machines, Ghita Skali
Thursday, May, 5, 2022, 5PM
Atelier Assemblée, Triangle - Astérides, Friche la Belle de Mai
Narrative Machines (2022) is an artist’s book disguised as a medical magazine, written by six fictional Moroccan female characters who revel in their narratives. The publication documents the recent work of artist Ghita Skali (b. 1992, Casablanca; lives in Amsterdam) and simultaneously stands as an artwork in its own right.
Co-written with Ayla Mrabet and Kaoutar Chaqchaq, this magazine blends truth and fiction—mostly fiction—and sharply satirizes paranoia, fake news, patriarchy, and the entanglement of media and politics in the Maghreb (and beyond). Instead, it envisions an elective community of women who confide, support, and laugh together.
Narrative Machines (2022)
Texts: Kaoutar Chaqchaq, Ayla Mrabet, and Ghita Skali
Graphic Design: Roxane Maillet
Proofreading: François Piron and Lucas Roussel
84 pages, 18 x 25 cm
ISBN: 978-2-918252-76-4
€15
Published by Paraguay Press and distributed by Les Presses du Réel
Published with the support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and CAC Brétigny.
