Abdelaziz Báraka Sakin and Rashid Diab in conversation
The Noise of Silence
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Fundación Valentín de Madariaga
Lives condemned to exile for exercising their creative freedom. Painter Rashid Diab and writer Abdelaziz Báraka Sakin, both Sudanese, discuss creativity in novels and the visual arts, between silence and words, images and the symbolic power of the imagination. The dialogue addresses the lives of both men and the difficulties suffered by free artists, within a philosophy of extended spaces that express the depth of time in literary text. They will also discuss the sources of inspiration that come from the sounds of letters and words, that is, from the essence of expressing ideas in their lives, within an environment saturated with customs, traditions and ancestral history. Both have been recognized in the countries where they live. Diab was awarded the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 2013 by the then King of Spain, Juan Carlos I; Báraka received the highest cultural distinction awarded by the French government: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2023)
Event in arabic with consecutive translation into Spanish
Free admission for students
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Co-organised by Open Society Foundations and in collaboration with the Valentín de Madariaga Foundation
