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From November 12th 2020 to January 12th 2021, fourteen artists invite you to five into their universes at the Abla Ababou Gallery.
The Abla Ababou Gallery entrusts Fouad Bellamine with the gallery’s space to celebrate the new artistic scene in Morocco. His sense of critique and passion to transmit makes him a key figure in Contemporary Art.
Within this selection of fourteen visual artists are different universes, all with fresh eyes. “Une nouvelle génération”, translated to “a new generation”, is an invitation to discover and to hope. Seen are techniques, disciplines and sensibilities connected in coherence with Fouad Bellamine’s sharpened gaze.
“Une nouvelle génération” encourages viewers to approach it in an exploratory manner with new forms of expression and on a quest led by uncertainty. Techniques, disciplines and sensibilities form a coherence under Fouad Bellamine’s gaze. An exhibition to approach as an exploration of new expressions and as a quest to find meaning in a world controlled by uncertainty. Beyond gathering a contemporary generation, this demanded selection is defined by each of their individual and radical experiences.
Said Afifi’s violent topography images engage in a dialogue with Morran Ben Lahcen’s superimposed geometries, along with forgotten architecture in Hakim Benchekroun’s work, align with the expressive faces of ordinary people from isolated regions in Morocco by Nour Eddine El Ghoumari. Déborah Benzaquen’s drowning women transport us to an unknown, nerve-wrecking poetry. A nuance of poetry Khadja Jayji sculpts through fire with her burnt paper, satellite of light and pain. A series of questions Youssef Ouchra approaches using his body. Between performance, installation and photography, Ouchra repeats movements and gestures used daily, addressing our threatened humanity.
An aesthetically pleasing recall to collective memory is displayed by Mouhcine Rahaoui to tell the forgotten Moroccan history such as the deadly mines of Jerada. On a more contemporary note, Sanae Arraqas proposes her “carnet d’un confiné”, where she paints ordinary life such as living rooms, a kitchen or bedroom in reference to prison. Omar Mahfoudi addresses the restriction of our freedom and obligatory rule to wear a mask. Some of the faces shown are taken over by the horror of a devastated planet.
Salah Taibi’s deadly portraits resonate with Najoua El Hitmi’s gestures and Mo Baala’s imaginary of the eerie, passing Abdallah El Haitout’s painted symbols and signs referencing childhood.
To conclude this exhibition, a new work by Fouad Bellamine, marking the artist’s transition to a more appeased world where pastel tones dominate.
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