We are delighted to invite you to the first exhibition of the Anticolonial Maps for Lost Lovers project, which will take place at the American Art Center in Casablanca.
An exhibition curated by Renata Summo O'Connell in collaboration with Ibtissam Ghazaoui as part of a project designed and directed by Asma Abbas.
This unique exhibition features artists from across the Global South—including Indonesia, Pakistan, Palestine, and beyond—in a collaborative effort to create an archive of “shared knowledge” through maps, phenomenologies, and autoethnographies. Anticolonial Maps for Lost Lovers explores the unrequited and articulates a politics of “another love” (Abbas, 2018), reimagining political desire and its possibilities.
This exhibition builds upon the foundation laid during the 2022 Jehanuma residency, organized by GCAS-Jehän and Hic Rosa, with support from the Bard Centre for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.
We warmly invite you to the opening event on 18 January 2025, at 6 PM at the American Art Center, Casablanca. The exhibition will run for two months.
If you cannot join us in person, we invite you to explore the online opening event at:
