Soufiane Ababri's "Bedwork / Shame Magnified" uses bold reds and grays against a pink backdrop, creating a stark composition centered on a black book with red text. The drawing features a book title, "THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL," suggesting themes of literature or introspection. Ababri's style echoes Persian miniatures with its balance of boldness and subtlety, capturing the tension between what is hidden and revealed. This work reflects Ababri’s exploration of societal ambivalence and personal narratives, integrating his passion for sociology and layered storytelling. ...
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. ...
