Following is an edited transcription.Īmy Powell: In Lighthouse in the Sea of Time and in your past work, you've been interested in different ways of narrating history, drawing on oral narratives and interviews, and also working with material and photographic archives. On October 3, I moderated a conversation between Zineb Sedira and Ranjana Khanna, Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English, Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Zineb Sedira: Lighthouse in the Sea of Time was on view at Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston from October 4 to December 14, 2013. Along with the Mediterranean Sea, the quiet poetics of watching, guarding, and caretaking envelop the lighthouses as historical sites and demonstrate the subtle persistence of struggles over nationhood, asylum, cultural identity, and language. The work unfolds in multiple, interrelated parts to frame the lighthouses' technologies, archives, and keepers, who clearly derive profound satisfaction from their monastic routines.
Built and maintained by France when Algeria was a colonial outpost, the buildings transferred to Algerian control following the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962).
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Zineb Sedira's Lighthouse in the Sea of Time comprises a series of videos and photographs documenting the artist's journeys to two lighthouses in Algeria: Cap Caxine, which lies just outside the capital city of Algiers, and Cap Sigli, located in the more remote Berber region called Kabylia.
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