Narjisse Moumna
Narjisse TDK Moumna is a Franco-Moroccan writer, curator, and translator based in Brussels. Her transdisciplinary practice moves at the intersection of archives, bodies, and power, across literature, performance, and curatorial research. Writing across languages and forms—essay, novel, poetry, translation, and editorial work—she develops a mode of reading attentive to what remains unsaid, displaced, or structurally obscured. Her work engages in particular with boxing as a cultural and political archive, exploring how figures are produced, mythologized, and erased within intersecting regimes of media, race, and power. This inquiry informs her doctoral research on the Senegalese boxer Battling Siki (1897–1925), tracing the colonial, transatlantic, and archival forces that shaped both his rise and his disappearance from historical narratives.
She previously directed the Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels and continues to develop projects at the crossroads of archival research, writing, and exhibition-making.
The Architecture of Absence
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”
—Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation.
“The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it....