Passionate about wine, I produced my first vintage at the age of fourteen, guided by intuition. My fascination led me to complete oenology internships and to join distinguished wine clubs, which organize tastings in production sites across France and abroad.

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The idea for this performance was born in the late 1990s, during a visit to my friend, the oenologist Pascal Frissant, in his village of La Caunette. Yet the project never left me, and now the time has come to bring it to life, nearly a quarter of a century later. The performance celebrates wine by invoking its gods: Jafna, daughter of the Canaanite god Baal, Dionysus of the Greeks, and Bacchus of the Romans.

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Nasser Soumi

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Credits

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Exhibition of artworks created with wine and a contemporary dance performance.

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As part of the 1st Artistic Salon of TARGET ART – The Spirit of Art.

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Concept & realisation: Nasser Soumi
Music: Fabienne Van Eck
Dance: Adan Azzan – Naïade Delapierre

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Acknowledgements

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Many thanks for their indispensable support: Mary Herment, Gilles Bazin, Rabab, and Yves Catala.

Further thanks for their support to Tassa Si Amer, Mehdi Khamassi, Dalia Somi, Corinne and Patrick Moles, Evelyne Lévi, Julien Médina, Médina company, Armel Fourreau’s Upholstery & Decoration Workshop and Marianne Boutin, Ahmad Abdelazim, as well as Monique Le Forestier of Bastille Design Centre.