THOMASSEN~Aline & TEJEDOR~Lázaro – ‘I travel in your head’*

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Author: Stijn Huijts e.a.
Artist: line Thomassen; Lázaro Tejedor
Year: 2004
ISBN-10: 9080724696

Paperback. [158] pp. 23 cm. With CD. Colored ills.

Catalogue of a 3 month project, where Aline Thomassen created a drawing a day being a recontextualisation of her personal experiences in the world of Moroccan women, together with sound compositions on a CD by Lazaro Trejedor. In 2005 the complete series of drawings was exhibited at the Artoteek Den Haag, and the Museum Het Domein Sittard. 
I travel in your head - visual correspondent in Morocco was a project by visual artist Aline Thomassen and Heden, The Hague with sound compositions by the musician Lazaro Tejedor, in collaboration with Museum Het Domein, Sittard and GEM, museum of contemporary art The Hague.

Project description
For three months in 2004 Aline Thomassen was working in Tangier and the surrounding province as visual correspondent.
In a journal of drawings she shares her daily experiences with the audience in The Netherlands via the internet. Lazaro Tejedor completes the picture of the day with current sound fragments from Morocco. New drawings were added in 2005/2006 and in 2007.

Project content
I’ve chosen the form of a diary for this project. This diary is firstly about women in an Arabian land. Women that I have learnt to know as strong, self-aware and expressive, used to having to survive and to follow their own path, maneuvering between regulations and restraints.
In journal of drawings I will try to show the special strength of Arabic women, from my own perspective as artist and western woman. A totally different view than the one-sided, politically loaded or often exotic image of Arabic women seen in the western media. Also I want to share my fascination for the daily life in Morocco; the visual richness, the mix of beauty and rawness that is everywhere. Intimate drawing of women will alternate with observations of everyday life.
The drawings of Aline Thomassen reveal the secret and the hidden, while the sound fragments of Lazaro Tejedor describe the public sphere.
Aline Thomassen is known for her watercolors and paintings of Mediterranean women in strange, dreamlike situations. She has been inspired by her many and long stays in Morocco.

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