TRACES VR Exhibit is the virtual reality inception of Firouz FarmanFarmaian's 2020 Retrospective in partnership with the PALAIS AZIZA - Palmeraie de Marrakesh - introducing the previously unreleased TRACES SOUNDWALK video.
'TRACES VR & Augmented is an evolutive retrospective built as a conversation around three central thematics : Memory, the Post-Tribal and the presence of women in my work. Curated by We R the Nomads this virtual reality edition was launched on the occasion of London Frieze Digital 2020 on Friday October 9th alongside a Zoom art talk followed by a live virtual viewing moderated by Janet Rady Fine Art of London involving guests Daniela Spoknik of Palais Aziza Marrakech and Rome based curator and Art Advisor Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia . But furthermore I see it as an interwoven web of creative initiatives and cross border friendships moving forward and towards the same direction, in reaction to challenging planetary circumstances. Hosted on Nouvelle Vague Artspaces VR platform it involves a multi-level collaboration with Daniela Spoknik of Palais Aziza with whom my wife Camilla and I - as We R The Nomads - originally worked with curating the physical TRACES exhibition in Marrakech through January-February 2020. It was set to open in March as an extension of my Memorandum Of the Unknown Path monumental installation at the Theatre Royal de Marrakech, presented on the Public Program of the 1-54 2020 African Art fair. A week later the world went into a lockdown. Our response to it is this show.'
Roma Central Magazine Interview