I investigate into the suppression and generational loss of Tamazight, Indigenous language of the Amazigh of Morocco. Personal and collective memory, archives and traces of communication, I examine what remains when a mother tongue is no longer passed on.
How to Tame a Wild Tongue confronts the silencing of Tamazight by colonial assimilation and cultural erasure. Using fragments and absences, the work forms a counter-archive of endurance and survival.
This dummy explores identity through a Dutch-Moroccan lens, inviting readers to question fixed definitions. With vivid collages and a reversible format, it encourages a personal, non-linear journey through the fluid nature of identity.