AFIKARIS is pleased to present the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Moroccan artist Mouhcine Rahaoui.
Mouhcine Rahaoui graduated from the Tetouan School of Fine Arts in 2017. His work explores the experience and history of miners in the Oriental region, particularly in his home town of Jerada. He offers an immersion into the meanders of his memory and his relationship with the raw reality of a town where the only way to survive is to 'take the rabbit trail', confronting the likelihood of not getting out. According to urban legend, a Belgian forest ranger stumbled upon a coal deposit in the late 1920s after having followed a black rabbit covered in coal. This event led to the first mining operations in the town of Jerada.
Mouhcine Rahaoui questions the absurdity of life in its unreasonable and unfair nature. The mine confirms humans' fragility in the face of the unpredictability of the mountain that feeds them and sometimes swallows them up. Mouhcine Rahaoui tells the story of these dangerous, clandestine expeditions to extract the coal that sustains life and gently consumes it. Mouhcine Rahaoui wonders why working there, in Jerada, leads to death rather than life.
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