Date: From 31/01/3007 to 16/02/2007
Place: Casa Elizalde (Valencia 302 Barcelona Phone – 93 488 0590))
Organizer: IEMed / Centro Cultural Casa Elizalde / Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo
Schedule: Mon-Fri 16:00-21:00; Sat. 11:00-14:00; Sun. (please consult)

On display are 51 photographs taken by the photographer Alfredo Cáliz over the course of 15 trips to Morocco between 1996 and 2006. The images are of contemporary, principally urban Morocco where Arabic tradition and Western influences live side by side. The catalogue of the exhibition includes texts by Juan Goytisolo and the Moroccan writer Abdelfatth Kilito.


Within the framework of the exhibition, IEMed, Casa Elizalde and Espai Cinema de Barcelona, have organized the film series “Miradas”. The objective of the series is to give us a closer look at the many faces of modern Morocco, its way of living and of thinking, through cinema. The session will take place the 8th, 15th and 22nd of February.
Programación del ciclo "Miradas"

Images and texts from the exhibition of Alfredo Cáliz

"One travels to meet another, leaving behind one place and handing themselves over to a sort of indefiniteness that seems like that of life, but is none other than the large trip. One travels to speak, and to speak is to go and look for the part that we are missing. In Morocco, this missing part comes to us in the form of rivers (gueds), castles (calas), “God willings” (inshalláh) and cushions, coinciding with ours: fitting together."

Image: Sahara (1999)

"One doesn’t travel to Morocco to discover anything, but to find oneself, to meet again with people, landscapes, places…, with the traces of a common history: parallel routes that one easily understands as one’s own; to reflect and submerge oneself in remembrances, which is the same thing."

Image: Tanners, Marrakech (1997)

"And the travels continued, the goings and the comings. And the photos were piled high, one on top of the other, diluting the thousand stories in just one. The story of the boy that followed me as I was leaving Imilchil and said goodbye with his hand on his chest; the father from Latifah kneeling down in the Safi fields gathering capers; meeting Caterina in a non-descript bar in Lavapiés; strolling along on Sundays in the Rastro; Mohammed Chukri’s books; the gusting wind in Essaouira and the wet Portuguese walls; the bus trips and the cries “Mr. allah Mr.!” like a litany in my restless sleep."

Image: Marrakech (1998)

"I’ve photographed during the time of small immigrant-carrying boats and in the time of growing walls. I’ve photographed an every day Islam the day that the twin towers fell. I’ve photographed to try and understand. One travels to Morocco and closes a circle."

Image: Marrakech (2002)