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SB13 Act II, exhibition at the Beirut Art Center, 14 October 2017 - 19 January 2018. Curator: Hicham Khalidi, Associate Curator: Natasha Hoare
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Jabal-Hajar-Turâb #6. 2015
Stones, photos, drawings on paper, video and drawing on wall
Hijra (meaning migration in Arabic) is a work in which Younes Rahmoun displaces seven stones from Bordeaux in France to the Rif mountains in Morocco and exchanges them for seven other stones that accompany him on his return. It is part of a series of works titled Jabal-Hajar-Turâb (Mountain-Stone-Earth) consisting of drawings, photographs, objects and video. Collectively, the works deal with placement and displacement, location and dislocation, the spiritual and the virtual. Devoid of today’s pejorative implications of migration, it connotes the journey of the prophet Mohammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina, the founding moment of Islam and the start of the Islamic calendar. For the artist, Jabal-Hajar-Turâb deals with our relationship to territory and the community in which we find ourselves and live, but sometimes are forced to abandon.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
SB13 Act II, exhibition at the Beirut Art Center, 14 October 2017 - 19 January 2018. Curator: Hicham Khalidi, Associate Curator: Natasha Hoare