
Zineb Sedira
In Zineb Sedira’s three-channel video Mother Tongue, 2002, several generations of the artist’s family—including herself, her mother, and her daughter—participate, at times, in an awkward discussion about their own childhood memories in their native tongues: French, Arabic, and English, respectively. Yet by the time grandmother and granddaughter are in conversation, mutual understanding has broken down. Both offer surreptitious glances toward the camera, behind which Sedira, presumably, acts as translator and the binding force between the two.
Though we rarely see Sedira herself in this show—aptly