Description
**FROM 30.05.2026 TO 01.11.2026.**
Co-conceived by Le Cube ? independent art room and La Condition Publique, the group exhibition "Au-delà de toutes les mers" brings together some fifteen Moroccan, French and international artists, all with intimate or artistic ties to Morocco.
when the minds of men seem narrow, remember that the earth is vast. Never hesitate to move away, beyond all seas, beyond all borders, beyond all homelands, beyond all beliefs...?
(Léon l?Africain, Amin Maalouf, 1987)
The group exhibition "Beyond All Seas" explores the circulation of populations, languages, cultures and stories around and beyond the Mediterranean Sea - particularly between France and Morocco. Strongly marked by Western colonization, particularly French colonization, but also by a long history of geopolitical relations and multicultural influences, these circulations are envisaged here not as strict movements from one place to another, but as genuine, constantly shifting flows, also generating relationships and the unexpected.
Co-curated by Le Cube independent art room (Rabat, Morocco) and La Condition Publique (Roubaix, France) on the occasion of the ?Saison Méditerranée 2026? supported by the Institut Français, this exhibition brings together a dozen artists, all with intimate or artistic ties to Morocco. Their works tell us something about the complex links woven - happily, unhappily or haphazardly - through and across this ?liquid continent?, a vast space of interconnections between the Maghreb and Europe. Built around three axes - geographical circulation, language circulation and intangible circulation (memories, know-how, beliefs) - the exhibition examines, in the light of the history that has shaped this region, how people, stories and objects move, metamorphose and react to one another in a world in perpetual motion.
Artists Ziad Naitaddi, Sarah Van Melick, Katrin Ströbel and Mohamed Laouli approach the Mediterranean as a space of crossings, displacements and even uprooting, where the comings and goings, largely provoked by colonial domination and the French protectorate, sometimes imply an absence and loss of links, sometimes the encounter and contribution of a necessary otherness. In this shifting geography, individual stories and journeys intersect and intertwine, telling the story of a polyphonic, fragmented world.
The duo Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Badr El Hammami, Karima El Karmoudi and Leila Sadel investigate the circulation of languages, narratives and the partial memories that emerge from them, between Morocco and France. In the course of migration and displacement, languages and the stories they convey change, evolve, are transmitted or erased, leading to the birth of other forms of speech.
Finally, other works by Khadija El Abyad, Ahmad Karmouni, Imane Zoubai, Karima El Karmoudi and Leila Sadel evoke the circulation, transmission or re-reading of intangible heritage, memories and know-how, through the use of materials and crafts specific to the Moroccan territory from which they originate. Whether diverted, forgotten or perpetuated by these artists, gestures, materials and symbols circulate like living energies. Presented in this exhibition in Roubaix, their works once again circulate what they are made of, to open up, perhaps, other possible dialogues, looks, mixtures or renewals.
Au-delà de toutes les mers? artists thwart, displace and recompose narratives, memories and cultural identities. They invite us to consider ?the encounter, the interference, the clash, the harmonies and disharmonies between cultures, in the realized totality of the world-earth? what the Creole philosopher and writer ?Édouard Glissant simply gathered under the word ?creolisation? (Traité du Tout-Monde, Gallimard, 1997).
**With the participation of artists:**
Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Khadija El Abyad, Badr El Hammami, Karima, Fadma & Allal El Karmoudi, Soukaina Joual, Ahmad Karmouni, Mohammed Laouli, & Katrin Ströbel, Ziad Naitaddi, Leila Sadel, Nour Sokhon, Myriam Van Imschoot, Sarah Van Melick, Imane Zoubai.
**Co-curator :** Ninon Duhamel (La Condition Publique), Elisabeth Piskernik (Le Cube ? independant art room)
**General curator:** Ismaël Jamaleddine
**With the support of:** L?Institut Français ? Mediterranean Season 2026
Projet à rayonnement artistique et culturel (PRAC) de la Région Hauts-de-France
*friday, May 29, 2026: Opening of the exhibition** *Guided tours on Wednesday and Sunday
**Guided tour on Wednesday and Saturday | 14:00 - 19:00**
**+ 1st Sunday of the month | 12:00 - 19:00**
