Mohamed El Mahdaoui
His project at the gates of Tétouan’s medina: Performance, painting, and socially engaged practice.
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When wandering through the Moroccan city of Tétouan between the 8th and the 14th of October, one might have encountered the young artist Mohamed El Mahdaoui sitting at one of the seven entrances to the medina, behind a quite unexpected device. A spherical jar, half-filled with water and alluding at the same time to fishbowls and crystal balls, is set up on a thin steel tripod. A transparent tube coming from underneath the jar leads to the hands of the artist, who activates a drip-drip system. The released water dribbles into a tiny argil pot already filled with ink. Soon, brown-coloured water overflows onto a circular cardboard surface about eighty centimetres wide and placed on the ground.
© Photos: Khalid El Bastrioui
His project at the gates of Tétouan’s medina: Performance, painting, and socially engaged practice.