{"id":21533,"date":"2026-07-02T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/putting-an-end-to-the-myths-of-the-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:45:48","slug":"putting-an-end-to-the-myths-of-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/putting-an-end-to-the-myths-of-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting an End to the Myths of the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21533\" class=\"elementor elementor-21533 elementor-15188\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88a6a2d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"88a6a2d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28f6c03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28f6c03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>In contrast to Mediterranean exhibitions that celebrate a shared heritage and dialogue between the two shores, \u201cOn the Frontier of Time\u201d invites graduates of the region\u2019s fine arts schools to pool their perspectives to analyze the present, without resorting to fixed representations or clich\u00e9s.<\/b><\/p><p>By Basma Mansour<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-972ecc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"972ecc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-2993.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21534\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-2993.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-2993-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-2993-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-2993-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53a4c14 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"53a4c14\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Views from the exhibition \u201cOn the Frontier of Time: A New Generation from the Mediterranean\u201d at La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille. \u00a9 Caroline Dutrey <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86f609a elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"86f609a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5560df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a5560df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Right from the start, the exhibition\u2019s title sets the tone. \u201cOn the Frontier of Time: A New Generation from the Mediterranean\u201d is taken from <i>The Archaeology of Knowledge<\/i>, in which the philosopher Michel Foucault describes \u201c<i>the edge of time that surrounds our present and marks it in its otherness<\/i>.\u201d The sentence concludes with \u201c<i>that which, outside of us, defines our boundaries<\/i>.\u201d It is here that Foucault moves from archaeology to an ontology of the present, to diagnose what we are. Choosing this phrase as the title for a Mediterranean exhibition, therefore, is not about invoking a heritage-based memory or initiating a soothing civilizational dialogue between two shores. The Mediterranean is not the subject, but the perspective, the vantage point from which this diagnosis is written in 2026\u2014from shores scarred by multiple forms of colonialism, where violence accumulates day after day, and where art schools have trained a generation that no longer believes in inherited borders.<\/p><p><b>Questioning History<\/b><\/p><p>Curator Soukaina Aboulaoula brought together sixteen award winners from these schools in Tetouan, Algiers, Beirut, and the south of France. She advocates for \u201c<i>an approach based on encounters rather than groupings<\/i>\u201d and refuses \u201c<i>to assign works to their country of origin<\/i>.\u201d For while grouping is the classic institutional practice of classifying artists by country and presenting them as representatives of their national art scenes, encounter, on the other hand, presupposes that there is no fixed identity to represent, because everyone is already living in this in-between space marked by the passage of time. The exhibition thus rejects the role of a showcase to become a space where we examine, together, the same question: what defines us, at this moment, on this sea?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f576c29 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f576c29\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The answer is evident in the room, and it doesn\u2019t come in the form of the expected imagery. No Mediterranean allegories, no shared symbols, no poetry of olive trees or harbors. Rather, what emerges is the unease of decaying matter, of a memory slipping away, of a colonial narrative that has not yet finished settling into the present. Amir Youssef makes this the heart of his film <i>Apol\u00e9on<\/i>. At the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e des Invalides, he comes across a diorama of the Egyptian campaign, featuring figurines \u201c<i>frozen in display cases<\/i>.\u201d Who decided that history ended there, behind glass? In the film, Napoleon\u2019s soldiers speak Egyptian Arabic, and when asked about the source of their story, they reply: \u201c<i>Wikipedia<\/i>.\u201d \u201c<i>I wanted people to doubt history, to doubt it even more<\/i>,\u201d he summarizes. The diorama, which we believe has been turned into a museum piece, continues to shape the perspective through which Europe tells its story of the Mediterranean.<\/p><p>Oumayma Abouzid Souali reflects on the chemical bombings carried out by the Spanish army in the Rif region between 1921 and 1926, which targeted crops, water sources, and the soil. Official records of this episode remain scarce. To make it tangible, the artist draws with incense. The smoke leaves a trail; the work takes shape as it burns, and the resulting map\u2014composed of scents and the act of burning\u2014forges a connection between northern Morocco and southern France through the memory of a violence about which the archives say almost nothing. She links this work to Abdelkrim El Khattabi\u2019s exile in R\u00e9union (1926\u20131947), where the Rifian leader grew geranium flowers to make a living. The transition from a world of toxic gases to a world of perfumes serves here as a diagnosis of the same colonial body that extended from one geography to another.     <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-006a0df elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"006a0df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf562c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"bf562c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3894.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21535\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3894.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3894-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3894-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3894-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2abd81 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f2abd81\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Views from the exhibition \u201cOn the Frontier of Time: A New Generation from the Mediterranean\u201d at La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille. \u00a9 Caroline Dutrey <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eac68a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"eac68a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-768525f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"768525f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>What Defines Us<\/b><\/p><p>Mounia Bouchra extends this concern by applying it to herself. Her installation <i>Passages<\/i> is based on interviews conducted with people from the Maghreb living in the south of France, focusing on a single detail: the object one takes with them when crossing over. A clay cup, a scent, a material. Bouchra reinterprets them in ceramic, scaling them up to near-monumental proportions, yet without erasing her unease: \u201c<i>Questions arise about the legitimacy of working from narratives or archives that are not our own.<\/i>\u201d This scruple remains visible in the work. It is itself a diagnosis of the present: we, artists trained on both sides of the sea, by what right, by what legitimacy, do we speak of others?<\/p><p>Anouch Basbous shares this sense of vertigo. Her video <i>Flood<\/i>, shot in a cemetery on the outskirts of Beirut, shows dark water gradually covering the graves, blurring the plants and the engraved names, \u201c<i>water whose source I do not know<\/i>.\u201d Basbous gives up on fixing it: \u201c<i>we don\u2019t have time<\/i>,\u201d the violence of the present prevents mourning. She prefers to remain with the unease. Hence her phrase, \u201c<i>a dance of death with one\u2019s own archives<\/i>,\u201d and the phrase she borrows from the Palestinian thinker Walid Daqqa, who died in an Israeli prison: \u201c<i>I don\u2019t want to go back to the Palestine of the past<\/i> [&#8230;].<i> I want to return to the Palestine of tomorrow.<\/i>\u201d The past ceases to be a place to return to and becomes a reservoir that we tap into for the future. <\/p><p>One lingering doubt remains, one that must be articulated. The exhibition remains highly accessible to the European institutional eye, and this may be the limitation imposed on it by its own Foucauldian ambition. <i>Diagnosing the present<\/i> is a sophisticated, elegant philosophical project, clearly articulated within the exhibition spaces. The rawest energy of the scenes the exhibition evokes lies elsewhere\u2014more chaotic, less polished for biennials and artist residencies. The most striking works, in fact, are those where this refinement cracks slightly. Youssef, because he laughs at the museum exhibiting him. Basbous, because she says, in four words, that there will be no consolation.<\/p><p>\u201cOn the Frontier of Time,\u201d however, embraces what its competitors still refuse to accept: making a Mediterranean exhibition not a celebration, not a dialogue, not a showcase, but an optical instrument. If the past is what, outside of us, defines our boundaries, then viewing these sixteen works together is an attempt to see what shapes us\u2014here, in 2026\u2014on both sides of this sea. It is a rare demand. And it is, without a doubt, the only honest way to continue speaking about a Mediterranean scene without betraying it.    <\/p><p><b>\u2014 Group exhibition \u201cOn the Frontier of Time,\u201d as part of the 2026 Mediterranean Season, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, through August 9, 2026.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abd74a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"abd74a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ed9ad9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3ed9ad9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21536\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FBDM_Vernissages_CarolineDutrey_200526-3957-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27e82ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"27e82ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Views from the exhibition \u201cOn the Frontier of Time: A New Generation from the Mediterranean\u201d at La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille. \u00a9 Caroline Dutrey <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to Mediterranean exhibitions that celebrate a shared heritage and dialogue between the two shores, \u201cOn the Frontier of Time\u201d invites graduates of the region\u2019s fine arts schools to pool their perspectives to analyze the present, without resorting to fixed representations or clich\u00e9s. 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