31/05/2025
A.MAL Lately: Elodie Sacher
I'm busy working behind the scenes managing and curating the next A.MAL project that's being announced soon. At the same time, I am continuing to delve deeper into my research on image politics, staging & display strategies, and aesthetics of dynastic representation in the former Sharifian Empire and present-day Morocco.
Here are some shots of a website I'm currently developing with , thinking about how to creatively distribute research ideas, including some snippets from my PhD research, archival finds as well as my own photography.
Sources:
1. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677), Mvley Arsheid Zeriff Prince of Taffeleta.
Emperour of Marocco and Fezz (1670), Engraving (h. 16 cm, w. 12 cm), John Ogilby (Ed.),
The New York Public Library, New York (Licence CC0). Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān:
Aḏ-ḏurar al-fāḫira bi-maʾāṯir al-mulūk al-ʿalawiyyīn bi-Fās az-zāhira, Rabat 1937, first picture
(no. 3) after p. 32. Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān: Al-ʿizz wa-ṣ-ṣawla fī maʿālim niẓām
ad-dawla, vol. 1, Rabat 1961, p. 57
2. Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-ʿArabī (sales & distribution), 'Allāh. al-Waṭan. al-Malik.'
(1960s?), poster for Hassan II's 'Day of the Throne', color offset print on cardboard (59.4 ×
42 cm), private archive. Al Massira (La Marche Verte), Youssef Britel, Morocco 2016. URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSenVqK0D4I&t=4875s, screenshot [TC: 01:23:58].
5. Niddam et Assuline (ed.), 'Fez. - La Carrosse de Gala de S.M. Moulay-Hafid', Postcard,
1909, find on Ebay. 'Le Sultan Moulay-Youssef en grande céremonie', in the series: Le
Maroc illustré, find on Ebay. Eugène Fumey, Choix de correspondances marocaines, p. 19
(letter), pp. 119–120 (Translation and commentary by Eugène Fumey). Rabat, Morocco,
1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.Flandrin,
framed photo of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, 1927, find on Ebay. Carte de visite,
Cadres Nancy, Casablanca .Carte de visite, Étoile Cadres, Casablanca