About this Event
Fi Adab Al Sadaqa: reading e(xilic)ncounters by Loulwah Kutbi, resident at Slavs and Tatars (supported by Art Jameel and Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia ) proposes the co-creation of a reading circle centered on letter exchanges between Arab artists. Inspired by Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the exilic optic, this initiative aims to challenge unified cultural narratives and highlight fragmented, diverse identities in the globalised age. The reading acts seeks to address political anxieties and spectral presences that reveal the complexities of cultural identity in exile.
The first session will explore the history of epistolary literature and the politics of friendship, followed by a co-reading of the letters and a discussion. The focus will be on letters exchanged between Damascus and Berlin, retrospective locations of exile shared by writer Abdulrahman Munif and painter Marwan Kassab-Bachi. By engaging with these letters through the logic of a situated encounter, the reading circle will explore the relational spaces opened by these exchanges and approach reading as an embodied and lived practice.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pickle Bar, Stephanstraße 11, Berlin, Germany
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