Qalqalah قلقلة: More Than One Language is first presented in 2020 at the Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie in Sète, curated by Virginie Bobin and Victorine Grataloup, and later in 2021 at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. The exhibition brings together artists whose works approach language as vibration, displacement, and political force.

Its title draws on Sarah Rifky’s fictional figure Qalqalah and on questions of translation and dispossession. In Mulhouse, these questions take on a specific charge within a city marked by border histories, labor migration, and the circulation of several languages. The exhibition also extends through workshops, public programs, an Arabic translation of the curatorial text, and a graphic intervention by Montasser Drissi linking Latin and Arabic alphabets in the space.

Within this framework, Piramidal places a Catholic procession in southern Spain alongside a poem by Juana Inés de la Cruz transliterated into Arabic script and read aloud in voice-over. The film connects Andalusia and colonial Mexico through transcription, displacement, and the historical charge of Aljamiado.

Piramidal treats language as sediment rather than system, moving through survival and the afterlife of script.