The FIAV (Casablanca International Video Art Festival) will take place from November 10 to 14, 2026. As it does every year, the event is organized by Hassan II University, the Ben M’Sik Faculty of Letters and Humanities, and the French Institute of Casablanca in Morocco. The curator of this 32nd edition, artist and videographer Mohamed Thara, presents a selection of internationally renowned artists with a collection of 10 films that will be exhibited at the new Museum of Photography and Visual Arts in Casablanca. This new museum, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, opened in late June in the heart of Casablanca’s medina. “In Transit”: The theme of this exhibition addresses the issue of transition in contemporary art, which encompasses several major realities—aesthetic, historical, and ecological. Serving both as a vehicle for raising awareness and as a catalyst for new ways of thinking. Critical thought in the 21st century is compelled to approach the relationship between humans and nature from a new perspective— that of transition, because the fundamental concepts proposed by modernity to study this relationship—notably the idea of a clear division between enlightened culture and nature to be tamed—no longer allow us to examine ourselves from a perspective capable of generating innovative practices in the face of the current environmental and political crisis. It is evident that most environmental problems stem from certain forms of human socioeconomic activity: capitalist, colonial, racist, and patriarchal. The philosopher Michel Serres defines modernity’s relationship to nature as a “war” based on the “control and appropriation” of the Earth, against which he calls for the emergence of a new political ecology grounded in a postcolonial equality between human and nonhuman life. An apparent paradox thus emerges in our contemporary thinking about nature: to adopt a truly ecological vision, we must abandon the idea of an original nature—one that exists outside of history or is inseparable from human activities. Art plays a fundamental role in addressing climate challenges by taking action. In other words, it is necessary to understand ecology beyond nature, as several critical thinkers have recently suggested.
Group exhibition
IN TRANSIT
-Museum of Photography and Visual Arts of Casablanca
10th -14th november 2026
Programmed by Mohamed Thara
List of video installations:
- Lingua Ignota - Corinne Szabo, 2026 (France)
- Zoo - Fran Orallo, 2025 (Spain)
- Transit - Brit Bunkley, 2024 (New Zealand / USA)
- La Condición - Albert Merino, 2018 (Spain)
- --Stream XII-II - Sakurai Hiroya 2022, (Japon)
- Archaea - Valentina Ferrandes 2026, (Italy / United Kingdom)
- Precipice - Kent Tate 2024, (Canada)
- ORBIT - Tess Martin, 2019 (Netherlands)
- I’m feeling lucky - Timothy Thomasson, 2024 (Canada)
- An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains - Mohamed Thara 2024, (France / Morocco)