Soufiane Ababri
Bedwork / Things have always happened under severed heads, 2020
crayon, colored pencil and pastel on paper
114 x 150 cm
115 x 150 cm
115 x 150 cm
right: Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American migrant composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived...
right: Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American migrant composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. He became strongly identified with the city and symbolized American immigrants. Paul Bowles was a pioneer in the field of North African ethnomusicology, making field recordings from 1959 to 1961 of traditional Moroccan music for the US Library of Congress.
Middle: Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl" in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every state.
Left: William Burroughs II (5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author whose influence affected popular culture as well as literature.
Tangier specifically was a place that attracted a lot of the Beat Generation writers. Cafe de Paris was supposedly the old haunt of Burroughs, Bowles and all the Beats who gathered around them during the notorious "interzone" period. Then there's the Hotel el-Muniria, where Burroughs did most of his work on Naked Lunch. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. The vignettes (which Burroughs called "routines") are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs: heroin, morphine and, while in Tangier, majoun (a strong hashish confection), as well as a German opioid with the brand name Eukodol (oxycodone), of which he wrote frequently. Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language.
Middle: Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl" in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every state.
Left: William Burroughs II (5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author whose influence affected popular culture as well as literature.
Tangier specifically was a place that attracted a lot of the Beat Generation writers. Cafe de Paris was supposedly the old haunt of Burroughs, Bowles and all the Beats who gathered around them during the notorious "interzone" period. Then there's the Hotel el-Muniria, where Burroughs did most of his work on Naked Lunch. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. The vignettes (which Burroughs called "routines") are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs: heroin, morphine and, while in Tangier, majoun (a strong hashish confection), as well as a German opioid with the brand name Eukodol (oxycodone), of which he wrote frequently. Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language.