oSmosi

The performance is inspired by the work of the Martinican psychiatrist Franz Fanon , "Black Skin, White Masks", written in 1952, in which he analyses the scars left by colonialism.  

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oSmosi arises from the urge to understand the genealogy of current conflicts. It brings to light what colonialism meant and measures what are the repercussions on our actual world.

Through the voice of an Algerian woman who immigrated to France in the 1950s, when Algeria was still a French colony, Osmosi reconstructs the story of two worlds, which once in contact, have created walls and separations, instead of creating an osmosis.

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Over time, instead of being dismantled, these barriers seem to have stiffened, manifesting a need to defend the wounded identity. 

Is it possible to convert the past into a force capable of making us advance rather than retreat into a world of retroactive repairs? 

Dedicated to the memory of Semcha Hammouche Khennouf