INTERVIEW Lunis Vogt
PUBLISHED 5 AUG 26
In “The Weaving Workshop”, Feriel, Yosr, and Youssef have created an installation that brings an abandoned weaving workshop back to life. By reawakening the memories and living knowledge embedded within the space, the installation offers audiences an insight into how the workshop once operated.
// What is your contribution to SEE DJERBA 2026, and how is it connected to this year’s theme: Akros / Entanglement?
The project explores nodes as points of connection between people, places, and knowledge. The weaving workshop itself is a node where generations of artisans have gathered to exchange skills and sustain a living tradition. Every woven thread forms a network of interconnections, while every manual gesture carries inherited knowledge from one generation to the next.
By reactivating an abandoned workshop through light and moving images, the installation reconnects the space with its history and community. It creates new encounters between past and present, craftsmanship and contemporary artistic practice, transforming the workshop into a temporary node where memory is activated and shared collectively.
// A brief explanation of format: What is your medium to create art?
The installation uses video projections within an abandoned weaving workshop, transforming the former workspace into an immersive environment. Close-up footage of artisans’ gestures is projected onto the architectural surfaces of the space, allowing visitors to experience the workshop as both a place of memory and living knowledge. The installation runs over three days and is accompanied by a public screening of the documentary and a discussion with the audience.
// What do you hope visitors experience when they encounter your work?
We hope visitors experience the installation as a meeting point between past and present, architecture and craft, memory and contemporary artistic practice. By bringing moving images back into an abandoned weaving workshop, the project reconnects the space with the gestures, stories, and people that once defined it. We hope these encounters inspire reflection on how cultural heritage continues to connect communities across generations.