With this new series of sculptures in cast aluminium, Mohamed Bourouissa aims to convey the intimate sensations that a formal procedure can induce, the traces that a systematic judicial practice can leave, both on and in the body.
These sculptures represent moments of palpation during body searches. They evoke a tension between body parts and the hands that palpate it and reveal a point of contact between social bodies and a state body.
The artist reveals an intimate experience of what the notion of control imposes in terms of bodily dispossession. The interiority of this experience is reflected by the void in the works. Through them, Mohamed Bourouissa represents an emotional dynamic that involves the enactment of two male bodies, highlighting the power dynamics and domination by one body over another.