Nadir Bouhmouch

Description

Nadir Bouhmouch is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose works include films, photography, short stories and essays. His practice focuses on popular history, ecology, agriculture and the commons through the mediation of communal and popular oral art forms. In 2019, Nadir co-initiated AWAL, a collaborative oral heritage archive project, rural residency and public programme dedicated to documenting, unpacking and curating popular oral literature or "oraliture" in Morocco and beyond. This project, alongside Nadir's other works often stem from the idea that ‘oraliture’ can be a potent source for unique aesthetics and narratives which break from those inherited from former colonial masters. Nadir currently works as a part of the Tizintizwa, a Moroccan poly-disciplinary art-research collective which acts as a set of pretexts for collective creation and cross-pollination. Their practice is based on working together and with others, on finding consonance in difference and in championing heterogeneity in nature and culture. Nadir’s work both individual and as part of Tizintizwa has been shown at various venues including the 35th São Paulo Biennial, the Eye Museum, BALTIC, documenta 15, Palais de Tokyo, Museu Nacional da Republica, Creative Time Summit and the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam.