Krypto Khamsa

Crypto Khamsa, Kamel Ghabte seizes the symbols of North African culture in order to underline their universal and unifying scope. The artist installed a hand of Fatima, whose eye, called the khamsa, has protective virtues, contrary to popular belief. New symbol and adaptation to the afterlife or to the new world where symbols reinvent themselves, exist, co-exist.

Kamel Ghabte (FR)
Kamel GHABTE is a versatile digital artist who develops, through UNISPHÈRES & My DIGITAL FOOD, different tools and programmes revolving around digital interactivity in real time. Besides, he’s a consultant as well as a composer of electronic music and an instructor in digital audio and digital interactivity. Since 2007, Kamel GHABTE is certified pro by Apple. His work revolves around artistic language, computer science as well as audio and visual content. His questioning focuses on the processes of artistic exchange, and the answers he gives are related to retranscription.