Basel Zaraa (UK-PA): Dear Laila

Basel Zaraa (UK-PA): Dear Laila

Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer. The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter began to ask him about his home growing up....
Corps Citoyen (IT): Barrani

Corps Citoyen (IT): Barrani

We are neither here nor there, hovering between two languages, two cultures, the past and the future, searching for a space of identity, constantly oscillating between the two poles.In Tunisian, ‘barrani’ means “the outsider,” literally...
Kaland // Artist as Curator

Kaland // Artist as Curator

PLACCC launched the Artist as Curator initiative in 2023, with the aim of making the program selection more horizontal by presenting each year at least one project proposed by artist(s) who regularly collaborate with PLACCC. In the first year, Ziggurat...