Co-Curating El Kazma – Art vidéo at Gabès Cinema Fen 2026
Video Art Exhibition
This edition of El Kazma is about humor — not as relief, but as resistance. The exhibition "A Laughing Heart" explores how humor allows us not to look away from what’s happening, but to carry it differently. Humor creates distance from what surrounds and suppresses us — and that distance can open something new.
A Laughing Heart takes laughter seriously. As a way of seeing. As a social force that unsettles the normal and makes room for something else.
At the center of the program is a tribute to Jean Dupuy and Olga Adorno — two artists whose playful, outcome-free approach quietly shaped visual, conceptual, and performance art across the second half of the 20th century.
They didn’t make art that claimed to be taken seriously — and that, as it turned out, was the whole point. It was serious in its lightness. Taking life lightly can be a profound form of resistance. That’s the simple message behind this edition.
A Laughing Heart takes laughter seriously. As a way of seeing. As a social force that unsettles the normal and makes room for something else.
At the center of the program is a tribute to Jean Dupuy and Olga Adorno — two artists whose playful, outcome-free approach quietly shaped visual, conceptual, and performance art across the second half of the 20th century.
They didn’t make art that claimed to be taken seriously — and that, as it turned out, was the whole point. It was serious in its lightness. Taking life lightly can be a profound form of resistance. That’s the simple message behind this edition.
Corniche de Gabès, Immeuble K Off, Résidence K, Musée d'art et de traditions populaires , Dar Medded
El Kazma - Gabès Cinema Fen
El Kazma - Gabès Cinema Fen
↳ Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Timo Kaabi-Linke, the curators of "Al Laughing Heart" at El Kazma, Gabès Cinema Fen 2026
