A polyvocal, multilinguistic, and transnational proposition, In the Inner Bark of Trees reflects the necessity of continuously challenging pathways to knowledge inher- itance, production, and transmission. In presenting art libraries, texturalities, performances, and co-learning sessions that defy histories of oppression and colonial- ism, the project reunites publishing practices that seek to simultaneously unsettle knowledge systems from dominant symbolic culture and release themselves from the confines of the material medium of modern colonial libraries. Instead, it fosters the imagination not only of libraries that are no longer limited by the printing system or canonical classification but crafted and nurtured by the intergenerational techniques, modalities, and feelings needed to sustain the alternatives of insurgent practices.

Contributors included Amina Agueznay, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Raisa Kabir, Gladys Kalichini, Gabriel Rossell Santillán and Keiko Kimoto with the collaboration of the weaver Luis David Cruz Mendoza / Casa Cruz, Teresa Lanceta, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Merve Elveren and Çağla Özbek in dialogue with İz Öztat and Çatlak Zemin, Zineb Achoubie and Lorenzo Sandoval, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Cecilia Vicuña, Once Known Authors, Forum of Co-learning Tunis (2023), El Warcha.

Curatorial ensemble
Soukaina Aboulaoula, Mistura Allison, Chiara Figone, Paz Guevara, Beya Othmani
Curator in residency
Salma Kossemtini
Visual identity
Aziza Ahmad and Lilia Di Bella for Archive Appendix with Yvon Langué
Scenography and head of production
Nancy Naser Al Deen
Production assistance and hospitality
Malab Alneel, Miriam Gatt, Iman Salem
Light design
Emilio Cordero
Carpentry
Santiago Doljanin
Exhibition mounting
Ayham Allouch, Fai Chung, Waylon D’Mello, Rafał Łazar, Jessie Omamogho
Tech
Bert Günther

Photos: Iman Salem

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