Mohamed El Mahdaoui
His project at the gates of Tétouan’s medina: Performance, painting, and socially engaged practice.
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If the performance’s principle remains the same in each place, the result is quite diverse, for the amount of water dropping in the pot depends on the number of people crossing the gate. Thus, at the end of the performance, the circle of cardboard shows a brown inked trace, due to water overflowing from the – receptacle, whose shape, contrast and wideness correspond to the very moment of the performance. When one asks the artist what the nature and the significance of his action is, he simply replies, "I am making a painting."
© Photo: Khalid El Bastrioui
His project at the gates of Tétouan’s medina: Performance, painting, and socially engaged practice.