Muhcine Ennou Moroccan, b. 18/02/1991
Timeless started from nothing but an empty digital canvas.
Using CGI as a new medium for creative expression provides limitless abilities.
Deserts are uncanny topographies. There is sand. There are dunes. There is very
little human interaction. And yet these particular moments that are brought to
life in the desert are not happening in the “void”, they are situated. The
images bridge between two worlds and two realities: two visible sets of
elements that have not been imagined to collide, or to exist in the same spatio
temporalities. The eye is suddenly re-educated to not fear the emptiness of the
desert. It is no longer associated with being lost. It is not tied to a local
experience yet resonating with local identities beyond the national.
We shared the conviction that art continues to exist as an
alternative from our current realities— gateways to re-imagined worlds,
re-imagined deserts, escapes that are more accommodating of bodies, ways of
thinking and ways of being.
The desert stands as a place to emphasised on multiple
times. Yet it is place that cannot be devoid of functionalities beyond the ones
it has been known for. It is rich. It is uncanny. It is limitless and timeless.
What would it be like to have coffee in the desert? What about coming across a
museum of dreams? Stepping into the sun? re-learning minimalism through
imagined mutualities beyond nationalist lenses? The re-interpretation that
Muhcine brings forward are also ones which bridge between what is, what is
imagined, and what could be, making of the imagined and surreal a transcended
visual experience.