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Baydaq/Loqma

Baydaq

Baydaq
Painted wood and compressed plastic bags
75 x 70 x 64.5 cm

The artwork, Baydaq, is made of a white wooden table whose top, composed of sixty-four small black and white square compartments recalls a checkerboard, checkers being a game that is frequently played in Morocco. Inside of each of the compartments are sixty-four compressed plastic bags, of which thirty-two are white and thirty-two are black, that Younes Rahmoun calls Kemmoussa.

Loqma

Loqma
Painted screen and balls from compressed aluminum foil
70 x 8 cm

Loqma, which means small ball, is constituted of a sieve that is entirely white, containing ninety-nine balls of aluminum foil compressed to the dimension of a small ball of food.

Location: Al-Rabita Al-Sakafia, Tripoli, Lebanon

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