WHY DAKHLAVISION?
Dakhla is the last town in Marocco, or, rather, of the territory that now forms part of Marocco but historically bore the name Western Sahara. This was the country of the Saharawi before a bloody war forced the population to flee forever their land of marvels between sand and ocean. Dakhla is a little frontier town, quiet, peaceful, a forgotten place suspended in a beauty without time. It is the real gateway to the desert: the entrance to another world.
Beyond Dakhla there is no Bancomat. There is no mobile phone reception. There are no more tourists, only adventurers; for anyone proposing to go further must cross 8 kilometers of minefield, a no-man’s-land, along a track bordered with the carcasses of blown-up vehicles lying there for years. The next town you will come to, Nuadibhou, the first town in Mauritania, will bring to mind one of Dante’s Circles of Hell, and nothing you come across from now on will have anything whatsoever to do with the Western mindset.
Thus Dakhla symbolises a threshold, a passage to another dimension, a place where a new vision begins. Like Alice, to pass through this door that leads to another world, one must be predisposed to change, one needs to be nourished with something that enables one to take that step beyond.
Dakhlavision aims to provide space for a new vision, a window opening on corners of reality that are far from fashion and the clamour of television. It is intended to develop a new way of seeing and, consequently, of thinking and of being.
To remain on the inside of things, but nevertheless critical and aware, seems today more than ever essential.
