The exhibition Une pierre sous la langue, whose name refers to a Saharan poem that recommends putting a pebble under the tongue to forget and throwing it towards the sun to remember, brings together previously unseen works from the Frac collection, all created between 2021 and 2025 by French-Moroccan artist Abdessamad El Montassir.
Since 2015, through his sound, film and photographic installations, Abdessamad El Montassir has been revisiting the recent and ancestral history of his native region: the Sahara in southern Morocco. An exhibition about landscapes, memory, political history, the lives of desert dwellers past and present, their relationship with all living beings, but also beauty and poetry.
Co-produced with the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Medici
