The artwork features a vibrant color palette, with a bold blue background contrasting against the warm, earthy tones of the central figure. The composition is striking, with the reclining nude form taking up a significant portion of the frame, while a smaller framed image of a serious-looking man hangs on the wall in the background. The figure's exaggerated, stylized features and distorted proportions suggest an expressionist or surrealist artistic approach. The overall context and the artist's intention behind this piece likely comment on themes of voyeurism, power dynamics, or the complex relationship between the viewer and the viewed. ...
It is in his bed, lying down, that Soufiane Ababri makes his "bed works". In essence, he examines the ambivalence of a society that is criss-crossed by tensions that are not so much the reflection of its contradictions, but rather of its complementarity. His heritage lies in his own story, built up by layer upon layer of personal and intimate events. A lover of sociology, Ababri’s entire body of work plays with the idea of seeing: the artist observes a world that observes him in a form of introspection combining his own unique perception, shared representations and accepted social facts in an exercise that is reminiscent of Persian miniatures and their subtle play with what is hidden and what is revealed. ...
