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Sofiane Ouissi and dove from "Bird," photo © by Pol GuillardPhoto © by Pol Guillard, L’Art Rue-Dream City 2025

Dancing with a Dove

At the Aichi Triennale 2025, one experience stood out as a shared highlight for our group of thirteen: Bird by the brother-and-sister team Selma and Sofiane Ouissi. Doves make no effort to “collaborate” or to “create a good work.” For this reason, Sofiane must have needed a radically different reconstruction of bodily context than in dancing solo or with another human. That was what I wanted to witness.