Comptoir des Mines Galerie is delighted to invite the public to discover Yasmina Alaoui's new research at the 1-54 fair in Marrakesh.

With this exhibition, Yasmina Alaoui reaches a crucial turning point in her work. Where her past exhibition 'Binatna' already questioned representations of femininity in Morocco through social, intimate and symbolic strata, this new series takes an even more radical shift: painting becomes the site of an unstable journey between life and death, between appearance and disappearance, between celebration and heartbreak.

Bodies are omnipresent, but never stabilised. Bodies offered up, fragmented, sometimes mutilated, sometimes disturbingly beautiful, often faceless, as if individual identity were fading away in favour of a more universal experience of the flesh. Femininity is neither idealised nor narrativised: it is living matter, traversed by contradictory forces, at once erotic and inert, vibrant and silent. This ambivalence is at the heart of the exhibition.

Yasmina Alaoui's painting does not celebrate life as a stable state, but as a fragile movement, always under threat. The loss of loved ones is never illustrated, never displayed, but it imbues the work with a particular gravity. The bodies sometimes seem to wander, collide, support or abandon each other, as if caught up in a ritual where the boundary between collapse and rebirth remains uncertain.

(Text by Hicham Daoudi)