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Rachid Koraïchi: An Ode to Intertwined Histories

Past exhibition
February 27 - May 25, 2024 Dubai
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Rachid Koraichi in the Factum Arte workshop, photo courtesy of Herve Desvaux
Rachid Koraichi in the Factum Arte workshop, photo courtesy of Herve Desvaux
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In an ode to Elmarsa Gallery’s longstanding collaboration with Artist Rachid Koraïchi, we would like to revisit a collection of his work. The exhibition will encompass a breadth of disciplines that Koraïchi has enmeshed into his practice, seeking to showcase his abiding fascination with the creation of deeply layered seams. 
The complexity and depth of Koraïchi' storytelling are seen throughout, as if a thread running through each idea. Demonstrating his desires and apt abilities for narration, Koraïchi's alphabet of memory is anchored in the world of glyphs and cyphers, where he nurses his fascination for texts function, aesthetics and cultural significance. From a line of thinking that acknowledges the amputations that peoples face from their past identities, he draws from his Sufi heritage.
Born into a writing civilization, Koraïchi speaks often of belonging entirely to writing, wanting to reveal the profound inner secrets of texts. With texts by great mystic poets and writers such as Rûmî, Ibn Arabi, Attar and Rabia Al Adawya often referenced in his work, Rachid Koraïchi has also collaborated with a number of contemporary poets and authors, among them Mahmoud Darwish, Mohamed Dib, Jamel Eddine Bencheikh, René Char, Nancy Huston and Michel Butor, creating intricately mapped out artwork through the writing’s inspiration.
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