In this installation, the artist stages a sculptural cluster of red bricks stacked, displaced, and reassembled to evoke the ceaseless metamorphosis of Casablanca’s urban landscape. By employing projection mapping across the brick facades, the piece becomes more than a static structure: it transforms into a pulsating terrain of shifting light and shadow. This interplay references the city’s constant state of flux, in which traditional architecture meets contemporary interventions, and the streets pulse with energy at all hours.
This work harnesses the tension between materiality and immateriality. The bricks, as tangible objects, symbolize the literal foundations of the city its infrastructure and social framework while the projected imagery functions as a fleeting overlay that redefines our reading of those same foundations. Here, the solidity of the bricks and the ephemerality of the projected light echo the simultaneous permanence and volatility of Casablanca’s urban environment.
Like many new media installations, this piece relies on the viewer’s movement around it. The forms shift and dissolve depending on one’s vantage point, mirroring the way the city reveals its layered identities through each new perspective. The projected images textural patterns, evoke the dynamism of daily life in Casablanca: traffic congestion, architectural juxtapositions, and cultural intersections, all captured in perpetual motion.
Ultimately, the installation serves as an immersive meditation on the city’s vitality, offering a poetic commentary on Casablanca’s urban rhythms. It invites us to question how architecture and community coexist in a space that is both historically grounded and perpetually in transition. Through its hybrid of sculptural form and digital projection, the work underscores the inescapable interplay between the concrete realities of place and the intangible forces social, economic, and cultural that continuously reshape it.
70cm * 100cm