Elsewhere, we’re from here – Nidhal Chamekh

December 3, 2026 – September 26, 2027
Free entry

Elsewhere, we’re from here by Nidhal Chamekh (Dahmani, 1985) is the fifth site-specific installation in the MUDEC agora and will be presented on December 3, introducing the process of reorganization and expansion of the museum’s Permanent Collection.

Chamekh occupies the Agora space by using the glass walls as a large screen displaying black-and-white compositions of drawings, sketches, photographs, and transfers.

The images mix objects and works of art from the collections of MUDEC and the Museo del Risorgimento in Milan, colonial-era photographs from Italian archives, and documentation concerning contemporary stories of exile, offering a fresh perspective on the theme of Western colonialism, particularly in Africa.

The title of the artwork references the poster D’ailleurs nous sommes d’ici, created in 2009 by graphic designer Sébastien Marchal in support of undocumented migrant workers’ rights and subsequently adopted by anti-racist collectives and social movements. The phrase plays on the double meaning of d’ailleurs (‘from elsewhere’, but also ‘besides’) to question notions of belonging and dismantle the narrative that frames the migrant as a perpetual outsider, asserting the presence and legitimacy of diasporas within contemporary social and cultural fabrics.