In this video, oral language as a ritual becomes a subject for the artist to explore. The work consists of one single close-up of the mouth of a woman, with the movement of the lips in slow motion. Through the editing, the images of the labial movement are superimposed, repeating the mouth and rendering it hypnotic. Despite the fact that the sound is desynchronised, it seems to emerge from this woman and recalls the “youyou”, the long high-pitched and modulated shouts of women from the Maghreb and the Middle East, used to express their emotions during ceremonies such as births, marriages, but also deaths, or as alerts during the Algerian war: a cry of resistance.

This video deals with the artist's recurrent preoccupations, also found in her photographs and installations: the search for identity, immigration, and the complexity of relationships between eastern and western cultures. Scream for Liberation, presents, in a metonymic manner, the Oriental woman, by fragmenting her body. Only her mouth is shown, and to describe her, a very particular sound specific to Oriental culture is used, in a modern, Western video aesthetic. This instinctive sound becomes the symbol of the speech of the Oriental woman, her means of expression, of liberating herself from the linguistic and social codes of submission.

Priscilia Marques