Zineb

Sedira's

solo

'Standing

Here

Wondering

Which

Way

to

Go'

at

Tabakalera

The Franco-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira has been addressing in her work themes around migration, memory and transmission, combining collective and personal narratives, at times autobiographical, questioning the bias of official histories.

For this exhibition, Sedira returns to the themes of art and resistance (and revolution), starting from an investigation into the Pan-African Festival of Algiers (PANAF) in 1969, organised by the new Algerian state, independent since 1962. Its capital, Algiers, was emerging as a place of ‘revolutionary’ encounters for many of the global liberation movements and the militancies and utopias of the 1960s and 70s.

The title of the exhibition, ‘Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go’, is borrowed from a song performed by the African-American gospel singer Marion Williams at the PANAF, an extensive cultural and political event, celebrating African unity, affirming culture as a revolutionary weapon of resistance to domination, and a powerful expression of hope for change in the world.