Mer’chant singer

Close to an approach he describes as “social art,” the primary inspiration for Yemoh777s’s artistic work comes from the street and the creative forces that produce this vast territory. For “Mer’chant,” the artist collaborates with the Senegalese and Ivorian communities, whose economic, commercial, and cultural ties with Morocco have endured for centuries, despite current difficult living conditions. The sounds of sewing machines, songs, and the wind on the sand dunes form an ode to resilience and the re-imagining of a sensitive cartography of borders.
Maud Houssais

Yemoh observes, as if in counterpoint to the masterful sculpture that rises in the water, the random micro-sculptures left in the sand by human passages. Here a shoe, a pen, there a broken game or an electronic element. Imagining a story from each fragment of an object. He also tells us about the moments he spends in Laayoune embroidering and talking with Senegalese or Ivorian migrants in sewing workshops. What are the commercial and cultural links that persist? What culture is produced in situations of displacement? He tells us about these discussions, makes us listen to the sounds of sewing machines, shows us their creations.
Léa Morin

Related exhibitions

• Organic Knowledge, LE 18 derb el Ferrane, Marrakech, 2024, with M’barek Bouhchichi, Wiame Haddad, Emeka Okereke, Yemoh777s.