The Algerian ground has been testifying of the multitude of incursions that marked its society and eventually affected its artistic ways of expressions. The two confronted key dates are proposed to examine the paradox defining the ‘territory’ and its oscillation between chaos and fertility, being both a zone of incommensurable destruction and a shelter to unrestricted hope. Through a collective visual arts exhibition titled ‘Home-Lend’, the project will seek to engage into a full dialogue on the percept of occupation and belonging; at a time of decolonisation’s inspect and refugees’ crisis, the idea is to break those stereotypes as well as the geographical boundaries and ultimately help define a new notion of identity and nationalism while referencing the themes of memory and filiations.

With ARTifariti’s 10th anniversary edition, the focus of the proposed collective will be relating topics of homeland, societal deconstruction and dual identities, one of the main objectives of the project is to emphasize the links between nations, the mutual influences and different sources of inspiration that contribute to shape the engaged from current scene in Algeria.