Men at work!

Last year massive road work has taken over what I thought I knew of my street. Newly inhabited by strange and huge iron machines, by workers in fluorescent apparels and yellow helmets, by hesitant pedestrians and perplexed cats, all deeped in a new light, I kept asking myself, What is beauty?

Embroidery 

Embroidery, (a continuation of the Men at work! series) stems from my work on roadworks and from my Screens project, which relates to the ancestral female craft of embroidery.

Having grown up in Morocco, I can't deny the immense influence that the art and culture of that region have had on me. I'm not appropriating a culture, I'm just personally paying tribute to this heritage. In this series, I wanted to point out this influence by combining my own work with photos from Isabelle Denamur's magnificent book "Broderies marocaines", which I have slightly distorted or transformed. And so I weave the link between the first women embroiderers and the workers today in my street. A tribute to human fluidity and ingenuity.