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 self-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 Dardishi, Azeema, ONCA gallery, Shado Magazine and Vittles.

I am part of A.MAL Collective, a curatorial platform of diasporic artists that explore ecology, migration, and post-coloniality through speculative art and research projects.

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

Writing and publications

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

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

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