"It is part of a wider multidisciplinary project, Paraboles, that is an inquiry into Moroccan people's identity, our imagination and the way we see the world. It can feel to Moroccans and those in other postcolonial countries that their minds have been colonised as well as their land. I grew up in Rabat, in a diplomatic family. My grandpa had a key role in the French Protectorate (1912-56)."
"I invented an imaginary republic with its own language and I thought it needed transportation When I returned and started looking around my country, I saw satellite dishes everywhere. These objects crystallised something about this past century, and I decided to use the satellite to create a whole fiction, a Hertzian Republic named after the hertz, the unit of frequency of radio waves. In this republic, people in exile go in search of a better future, but that hope is a mirage."
Parabomobile depicts a man riding a Peugeot 103 along a partly constructed road near Marrakech while carrying 21 satellite dishes, each pointing in a different direction. The overstimulated rider cannot choose a path and ends up going nowhere, symbolizing fragmented direction and the mirage of better futures. The work is part of Paraboles, a multidisciplinary inquiry into Moroccan identity, imagination, and perceptions shaped by colonial legacies. The project includes texts, installations, a short film of pilgrimages to screen-derived places, goat-skin passports that react to temperature, and an invented language linked to satellite frequencies.
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