Malmo Kunsthall……’How to Call a Ghost’.

 ‘How to Call a Ghost’ is the apt title of an exhibition at the Malmo Kunsthall by Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili. 

Since the early 2000s, Bouchra Khalili, has created works that focus on the power of story telling through film and video. She addresses issues related to belonging, community, and democracy so the exhibition is a powerful critique on past injustices through authenticate voices. 

Her work ‘reflects the current situation in the EU (socially, politically, and historically), where the right to belong has been based on exclusion’. The Malmö Konsthall is not new to presenting  how art can speak to politics and recognises how the issues Khalili lays bare are relevant to this region and for the City of Malmö, home to more than 180 different nationalities. 

‘The exhibition is based on the idea of the circle – the absence of a beginning and an end – but also on the circle as a gathering point for traditional oral storytelling. In Morocco, “al halaqa”, gathering in a circle around the storyteller, is a tradition that is several hundred years old. Halaqa literally means “circle”, “ring” or “assembly” in Arabic’.