LEILA GAMAZ
ليلى قماز

Healing disconnection through untold stories, ritual and speculative futures

Leila Gamaz standing with her back to the camera, in front of her film On The Shores Of Al Jadida

Photo credit: Ella Hunter

Through a combination of interviews, archival research and collective exploration, I share stories that create opportunities for healing losses experienced by the diaspora. This encompasses memories of and held by landscapes, species, and bodies. I build on these collective stories of the past to help us dream and imagine alternative futures.

I have worked with Rich Mix, Azeema, Dardishi, AWAN, Shado Magazine and Vittles.

I am also one of A.MAL, a collective that explores ecology, migration and globalisation through speculative art and research projects.

I remember the life, labour, species and experiences of everyone and everything that has brought us to this moment, and made my existence and expression possible. This collective past is contained within and inextricably linked to everything you’ll see on my website. With thanks to my family, friends, ancestors, and from nature which I've arisen.

Writing and publications

Machaho: A Berber folk tale

http://leilagamaz.com/post/in-among-and-between-publication-a-mal

blankets-exploring-the-time-capsule-of-my-ancestors-memories-azeema Leila Gamaz

60-years-on-from-the-french-occupation-of-algeria-and-my-heritage-is-still-lost-shado-magazine Leila Gamaz

http://leilagamaz.com/post/the-politics-of-couscous-can-we-preserve-traditions-without-preserving-the-patriachy-lucywriters

http://leilagamaz.com/post/the-culinary-dead-end-of-couscous-vittles

Leila Gamaz | Moving food across borders where people cannot | Dardishi

http://leilagamaz.com/post/cooking-in-remebrance-lucy-writers

See all of my writing and publications here

Exhibitions and events

Coming Home activity pack Leila Gamaz

https://www.leilagamaz.com/post/a-mal-in-residence-at-the-cca-17-01-2022-24-01-2022

LINK - http://leilagamaz.com/post/in-among-and-between-onca-gallery

LINK - http://leilagamaz.com/post/working-with-family-archives-dardishi

international-lost-species-day-screening-dardishi leila gamaz

red-gold-p21-gallery Leila Gamaz

See all exhibitions and events here

Film

Marwan and Khalil | North African storytelling | Leila Gamaz

The Animals, the Plant and the Stranger by Leila Gamaz

From The Shores of Al Jadida | Leila Gamaz

See all of my films here

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