WE WERE ERASED FROM MOROCCO’S VENICE BIENNALE PAVILION
Last year, we were approached by
@offset.jpg Fatima Benhamza, acting on behalf of
@ateliersbe Khalil El Ghilali and
@belyas.co Mehdi Belyasmine, to lead the artistic and technical development of the sound and visual concept for the Moroccan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
We delivered. We worked to create the building blocks of the experience that was submitted and ultimately selected. But after the selection, We were excluded, ignored, and replaced without discussion. Our work was used to secure the spot,
Throughout the submission phase, we covered our own expenses—renting sound gear, traveling to Marrakech to collect audio/visual material, and to Rabat to submit and present alongside the team. All from our pockets.
yet we received no credit, no compensation, and no acknowledgment.
They claimed that the project was “100% Moroccan team” — while outsourcing the production to a company in Venice and cutting us off completely.
We have held back from speaking publicly for over a year, hoping for resolution. But after months of silence, unpaid dues, and being written out of a project we helped shape from the ground up, we are sharing this today out of necessity and principle.
This post is not an attack on the Biennale, nor on our country — it is a demand for accountability from the team who knowingly excluded and exploited us.
@mjccgov @fondation_nationale_des_musees @labiennale
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