Mouna Saboni

Born in 1987 in Rennes, France, Mouna Saboni is a photographer of French-Moroccan origin. After completing a Master’s degree in Social and Solidarity Economics, she enrolled at the National School of Photography in Arles, graduating in 2012. Her work focuses on notions of identity, memory and the relationship between individuals and the territory. Her photographic work oscillates between documentary and poetic approaches. Since 2018, she has been formally developing her work with writing by integrating it plastically into her photographs.

 

I would like to develop a project entitled “Les identités effacées” (Erased identities) around the notion of identity as a multiple, complex and shifting construct. Attempt to explore this notion by
working photographically on the chaotic history of Rome, developing a graphic and plastic research project based on the palimpsest collection of the Vatican Apostolic Library. At a time when people around the world are retreating into their own identities, we need to remember that our identity, our present, is made up of a long history of constructions, the memory of which is essential. Find out how visual and artistic work can use the traumas of the past to think about the present. Using an archaeological approach, weave links between different eras, bringing out the voices of the ground, the stones, the past. “Erased identities” as a form of resistance to oblivion.