It is the fruit of visionary organisers, like Azzedine Abdelouhabi, president of Orienta, and Christophe Boulanger, curator of the exhibition. Articulated between the Medina and the modern city, the works of 35 contemporary European and Moroccan artists, brought together on the occasion of this exhibition, which constitutes the 6th edition of the Orienta Contemporary Art Festival, will invite visitors to a philosophical and artistic walk in the capital of the Oriental.

The exhibition will be conceived as a journey through the city of Oujda, thus opening new passages in the daily life of the city. A poetic "inhabiting" will therefore be organised from shared fragments of life, points of view on other cities (Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Cairo, Taipei), resistance devices, monuments that are both wonderful and precarious. A new possibility of travel will be offered at the corner of a street, in a library patio, in a café or in the galleries of a theatre.

Poems will come to rest in urban interstices, through a route punctuated by encounters with contemporary art, naive art or poetry. An invitation to passage and a poetics of the shores will be developed around three main themes: the double image, the threshold and the border, the reflection of the other. The exhibition will offer nearly 150 works: photographs, painting, video, performances, installations, some of which were produced for the exhibition.

Access to all venues and events will be free. Among the artists exhibited, we will find: Ahmed Aajour, Emmanuel Aragon, Hassan Badreddine, Stéphanie Béghain & Olivier Derousseau, Jean-Christophe Ballet, Yasmina Benari, Mohamed Bourouissa, Charles Cako Boussion, Balthasar Burkhard, El Yazid Kherbache, Kapwani Kiwanga, Hee-Won Lee, Manon Leroy, Chris Marker, Randa Maroufi, Sarah Mauriaucourt, Ahmed Mattougui, Lauren Moffatt, Najib Cherradi, Albert Clermont, Sébastian Diaz Morales, Mati Diop, Abderrahmane Doukkane, and so many others...