DAR MHANI, Biennale de Bamako, 2026
This project takes its starting point in the house where I grew up, designed by my father, architect Azzedine Baddou. Built from reclaimed materials, found objects and repurposed fragments, the house evolved into an intimate medina, where accumulation and coexistence form a personal and cultural language.
The project explores objects as carriers of memory, history and identity, and how their meaning shifts when removed from their original context. It unfolds in two movements: first, filming the objects within the dense environment of the family home, notably in the short film Dar Mhani (2023); then relocating them into field landscapes, where isolation gives them a new presence.
Between the intimate and the collective, the project considers objects as sensitive archives, questioning how space, scenography and the gaze can transform their value and reveal hidden narratives of memory, transmission and belonging.
