Younès Rahmoun: Habba-Zahra

Younès Rahmoun: Habba-Zahra: you offered me a seed, I give you shadow and flowers

John Jones Project Space is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Younès Rahmoun, one of Morocco’s most regarded contemporary artists. Winner of the 2014 John Jones Art on Paper Award at Art Dubai, Younès Rahmoun employs a wide range of media in an ongoing quest for spiritual universality.

Younès Rahmoun is best known for a body of work that combines his religious and spiritual beliefs with the everyday concerns of living within a global context. His work first came to attention in 1998 when he was invited to participate in The Disoriented Object at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. By 2001, Rahmoun started working in a way that directly engages with his spiritual exploration, incorporating Sufi thought into his work as well as Oriental philosophy. This shift towards the spiritual is borne out of a personal search for meaning – a pursuit that has informed and enriched Rahmoun’s artistic output.

I do not distinguish ‘Younès the practicing Muslim’ and ‘Younès the artist’ – I am both. What I do is simply a reflection of myself. In my artistic work, I seek to discover myself and explain my own path of exploration. My work is the trace and the concrete result of that exploration. (Younès Rahmoun, 2007)