M’barek Bouhchichi Moroccan , b. 1975
The work takes as its starting point the soc d’araire, the metal blade of a traditional plough, an ancestor of the modern tractor. This object, designed to draw lines through the earth and turn the soil, bears the movement of the human foot, with a shared gesture, a similar mechanism. It is the same motion that traces paths and marks terrains.
Today, the soc d’araire appears as an object both still present in certain contexts and yet almost destined to disappear. It embodies an idea of the “non-logical” object, one that resists the logic of modern utility.
The triptych form serves as a kind of portrait of this fugitive object: the first panel facing us directly, the second shifting in view, and the third fading into blur: an image of disappearance, of something being erased.