Khartoum Workshop
Artists from various countries worked together with the neighbours of El Diem in Khartoum, Sudan.
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For Emily Williams (UK) the story one of the older shop owners of El Diem market told her on the first day, was the starting point for her project. She began to dig a hole at El Diem market, trying to reach an older layer and collecting the soil in bottles to visualize the different layers. The bottles became part of an installation called "The Office," a cupboard like the ones used by many tea-ladies in the street. Finally, Emily filled the hole she had excavated in El Diem with soil from Khartoum 2. To quote Mohamed Mohamed - a journalist who wrote an article on the workshop in the Sunday newspaper - "Digging and filling is like a poem for El Diem, for this town floats on sand and shifts like sand".
© Photo: Courtesy Dutch Art Institute
& Hester Oerlemans
Artists from various countries worked together with the neighbours of El Diem in Khartoum, Sudan.