Nabil Himich (b. Jan. 1997, Meknes) is based in Marrakech, Morocco. He works at the intersection of architecture and literature to investigate political themes traversing the material narratives of the everyday. By juxtaposing painting, installation, writing, drawing, sculpture, and participatory forms, this mul3-layered work, being haunted by the aporias of postcolonial multilingualism and class hierarchy, broaches themes such as the singular and the multiple, unequal structures, spatial anthropophagi, the poe3cs of enclosure, the practice of staying. He often adopts notions such as ‘con-texture’ and ‘archi-texture’ to provide deconstructive schemes for thoughts and actions. These notions are also conceptual tools for narratives around the production and formation of place, the distribution of territory and knowledge, class issues and representation.

For 3oubour, Nabil will expands on his ongoing project dis-enclosure, exploring the delirium that exists when dancing the line between homeness and strandedness, and the possibilities that exist in the metaphor of a house with no doors or windows. He proposes to alter the conventional impression of the border, suggesting a form of embodiment that cannibalizes enlightenment, and the outside. In the un-imaginable times we live in, he imagines a transition of strandedness to willful staying, a form of staying that transcends its volitional dimension, that translates as “بقاء”, and where survival becomes a risk-full practice, upheld under the light of an anti-destiny, where the will to stay, resist, endure, sabotage, dwell and survive is nothing but a drive to technical manipulation, « a techne of rampant illumination without revelations, poetics, or truth, with neither instrumentality nor epistemology, just the craftsman’s arm upon the wheel… » as J.Mohaghegh would define it.

Thus the paradigm of desinclosure becomes one where art making can be defined as the becoming practice of staying. As well as a laboratory for social introspection, generating metaphysical, escatologogical or fictional constructions around place as a divine accidentality.

In this phase of the project, Nabile will explore form of sonic fields beholden in sculptural enclosures, dialoguing with Moorish architectural features.