
M’barek Bouhchichi Moroccan , b. 1975
"La poésie ne doit pas périr. Car alors, où serait l’espoir du Monde" Léopold Sédar Senghor #2, 2023
Assembled, stained and engraved wood, marble
180h x 60w x10d cm
Braille content: مشتاقون لبصيص نور خلف سور هنا دوع دير، بنادير زوفري / قدر ا لملوك Longing for a beam of light Behind a wall Here is an incurable disease...
Braille content:
مشتاقون لبصيص نور
خلف سور هنا دوع دير، بنادير
زوفري / قدر ا لملوك
Behind a wall
Here is an incurable disease
Bootlickers
Zofre / Fate of Kings
In this work, M'barek Bouhchichi materializes poetry by giving authority to words through a collage of politically engaged Tunisian poems that have marked important periods in the country's history. Bouhchichi creates a symbiosis between poetry and poiesis on the Tribulum, an ancestral agricultural tool as violent as it is delicate. The artist transforms poetry into shards of stone that he encrusts on the Tribulum and in the style of mirabilia, the "what we have never seen", he makes the words palpable in front of a History without eyes.
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