The 2023 edition of Ch[a]rita, titled “Mirages of Resistance,” unfolded across Marrakech as a series of artistic interventions, performances, screenings, workshops, conversations, and collective gatherings dedicated to exploring the political, social, and imaginative dimensions of public space. Continuing the program’s commitment to situated artistic practices, this edition examined how urban environments can become spaces of resistance, memory, and collective reappropriation.At the heart of this edition was a reflection on the growing mechanisms of alienation shaping contemporary cities. In the face of the privatization of public resources, the enclosure of common spaces, ecological crises, and forms of social fragmentation, Mirages of Resistance explored how art can contribute to recovering collective agency and creating possibilities for imagining alternative futures. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the “right to the city,” the program sought to reclaim public space not only as a physical territory, but also as a shared social, cultural, and political practice.Over several weeks, artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners transformed gardens, streets, squares, construction sites, and everyday urban environments into temporary platforms for experimentation and dialogue. Installations, performances, participatory workshops, sound walks, screenings, and public conversations invited audiences to engage actively with questions of memory, water, architecture, displacement, ecology, tourism, and collective life.An important component of the program was the development of new artistic commissions and research projects by participating artists, whose practices addressed diverse yet interconnected themes. Through archives, oral histories, speculative fiction, participatory design, sound, movement, and interventions in public space, the artists explored the ways cities are produced, inhabited, remembered, and transformed. Their works highlighted forms of resilience and appropriation already present within local communities, while opening new spaces for dialogue and collective imagination.The notion of the mirage served as a guiding image throughout the edition. Fragile and ephemeral, mirages reveal the instability of what appears immutable and challenge dominant perceptions of reality. In this spirit, Ch[a]rita 2023 approached artistic practice as a means of bringing hidden narratives to the surface, questioning inherited structures, and imagining new possibilities for living together. Through moments of encounter, exchange, and shared experience, Mirages of Resistance transformed public space into a laboratory for critical reflection and collective dreaming.