text MR II

This concept isn’t new to Rechmaoui, who recently revisited a sketchbook from the 1990s in which he systematically recorded the games of his youth. Replicating these pastimes, he presents here a set of marbles, a kite, a hopscotch outline reproduced with oil pastel on concrete, or a sandbox with a throwing knife. The innocuous feel of these playful installations is reinforced by the works hanging on the walls: poetic representations of pine trees, flowers, cotton candy, ice cream sticks or clouds made with molten beeswax, mixed with colour pigments, and embedded in concrete.