TALEL presents Eyes Wide Souk, an artistic collaboration with photographer and researcher PZ Opassuksatit.
The project marks the launch of TALEL's cultural programme, a series of artistic collaborations exploring contemporary narratives through design, craftsmanship and research.
Eyes Wide Souk explores memory, repetition and Moroccan juxtaposition.
As part of TALEL's commitment to creating new cultural narratives and challenging conventional perspectives, the project invites viewers to move beyond the density and spectacle of the souk and encounter the gestures, routines and relationships that quietly shape everyday life in Marrakech.
For the past year, artist PZ Opassuksatit has been researching forms of invisible labour across different communities around the world. Through conversations, observation and long-term immersion, the project investigates professions as everyday practices that people choose to pursue, repeat, develop and dedicate themselves to over time, practices they somehow continue to believe in.
Beyond the work itself, the research is guided by one simple question:
The project follows four individuals whose work exists between tradition, craftsmanship, performance, care and survival. Through photography, moving image, collected objects, interviews and installation, recurring gestures emerge: hands folding msemen before sunrise to nourish a community; bodies carrying merchandise through crowded streets, suspended between connection and rejection; henna patterns drawn onto skin only to slowly fade away; and rhythms performed between snakes and spectators, where fascination and danger coexist.
