Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
In this installation the French Moroccan artist Sara Ouhaddou created a fictitious storage space. She displayed Marseille soap, born from the various exchanges between Marseille and Aleppo. On the shelves,the artist reflected on the interdependence of knowledge in the Middle Ages between the Arab-Andalusian world and Marseille.