In At-Tāriq: the Tamazgha Chapter, Tarek Atoui embarks on a long-term investigation into rural musical forms of the Arab World along the sub-Saharan roads of pilgrimage and trade. For this first iteration, he guides us to the ancestral lands of the Amazigh people, the Tamazgha.

In Amazigh culture, Tamazgha is more than a homeland; it is the source and repository of musical, artistic, artisanal, and intellectual traditions. Emerging from two years of exchange with musicians and artisans from Morocco’s Atlas region and well beyond, the opening chapter of At-Tāriq at TBA21 proposes a space of poetic hospitality composed around the Majlis (traditional site in Arab and North African homes). It is a space that holds, welcomes, and resonates while generating a multiplicity of affinities and experiences. 

As a prelude to his exhibition, Tarek Atoui presents Forgotten Tales Through Time, a concert with a number of musicians at the Monde des Arts de la Parure in Marrakech on January 31 at 4:30pm.

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