{"id":22252,"date":"2026-11-13T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/hassan-bourkia-sculpts-the-pains-of-existence\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:35:28","slug":"hassan-bourkia-sculpts-the-pains-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/hassan-bourkia-sculpts-the-pains-of-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan Bourkia sculpts the pains of existence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22252\" class=\"elementor elementor-22252 elementor-22239\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a37afad e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a37afad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5afa6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5afa6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>In his latest solo exhibition, Hassan Bourkia pays tribute to the books and authors that have accompanied him, offering us a philosophical reflection on the ravages of time. <\/b><\/p><p>By Olivier Rachet<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b8ea04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1b8ea04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4411.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22257\" alt=\"Hassan Bourkia, *The Paths of Restlessness*, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4411.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4411-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4411-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4411-768x398.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hassan Bourkia, <i>Les sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9<\/i>, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c688e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8c688e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d90ef9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d90ef9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>There are exhibitions that literally take your breath away. And breath is precisely the theme that opens \u201cLes sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9,\u201d presented by Hassan Bourkia at the Comptoir des Mines in Marrakech, following the exhibitions \u201cR\u00e9sistance d\u2019une promesse\u201d (2020) and \u201cAu nom des miens\u201d (2021). The wall installation <i>The Breath of the Image<\/i>, which evokes a library and opens the exhibition, displays a collection of bamboo scrolls, some of which contain a few pieces of paper.  On one of the shelves, a reed pen and a bowl serving as an inkwell stand out. A reminder of the earliest scrolls of writing, of calligraphy associated with divine inspiration, of a universal Wailing Wall? Ash covers the various objects, like the remnants of a time that might vanish.<\/p><p>The theme of disappearance, in fact, runs throughout the exhibition: from the city of Pompeii buried under lava, to the manuscripts of Timbuktu destroyed by fanatics, to the Library of Alexandria, to which a pyramid-shaped installation of the same name pays homage. Each work calls for silence and contemplation. Each invites sharing and\u2014to borrow the beautiful term used by the artist, who is also a poet and translator\u2014remembrance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b193f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2b193f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e303f36 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e303f36\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22256\" alt=\"Hassan Bourkia, *The Paths of Restlessness*, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385-992x1024.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385-768x793.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385-1487x1536.jpg 1487w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4385-300x310.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hassan Bourkia, <i>Les sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9<\/i>, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0301d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f0301d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc2207b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc2207b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Wind and the Pasture of Wind<\/b><\/p><p>The authors featured\u2014from Benjamin to Tanizaki, including Camus, Darwish, and Mahfouz\u2014are chosen for the elements of destruction and violence that their work does not shy away from: from the Nazi extermination to the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Placed under the auspices of a Faustian pact made with the devil, the installation <i>The Wretched of the Earth<\/i> evokes colonial violence through the figures of Fanon and C\u00e9saire, and recalls the 1889 Paris World\u2019s Fair, which featured a \u201cNegro Village\u201d of grim infamy.<\/p><p>Disappearance is also an integral part of the process of industrialization, as suggested by the installation <i>Facing the Absurd<\/i>, in which objects meant to bring people closer together\u2014transistors, televisions, cameras, 8mm film cameras\u2014are covered in dust. As <i>Ecclesiastes<\/i> asks, is not everything wind and a chasing after the wind? Everything, yes\u2014except perhaps words and images, in their ability to confront shadow and nothingness, as suggested by this passage from the <i>Tao Te Ching<\/i>, copied by the artist: \u201c<i>He who knows the white but remains in the dark is the measure of the world<\/i>.\u201d  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30515c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"30515c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c99468f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c99468f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4331.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22253\" alt=\"Hassan Bourkia, *The Paths of Restlessness*, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4331.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4331-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4331-1024x944.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4331-768x708.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hassan Bourkia, <i>Les sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9<\/i>, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d27a08c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d27a08c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b714a94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b714a94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>A World That Refuses to Disappear<\/b><\/p><p>As for the image, the entire exhibition revolves around its essence, just as the reels of a cinematograph once turned. The ash and dust with which the artist covers his books and objects are merely the negative of a world that refuses to disappear. Bourkia, let us not forget, is a painter. Like Bellamine, he is also a champion of gray\u2014of the interstice that both separates and unites the visible and the invisible, black and white, presence and absence, emptiness and fullness. Along the paths of restlessness, we encounter several canvases, one of which, pierced, offers a glimpse of the stretcher. Here, too, they are covered in ash and dust, revealing a few traces or imprints that seem almost funerary. Elsewhere, these traces form silhouettes or Japanese-style plum blossoms. It is not that art is reborn from its ashes, as Anselm Kiefer believed: art, according to Bourkia, has instead passed through the ashes of existence\u2014mourning, lost loves, shattered ideals. <\/p><p>It is no coincidence that the exhibition concludes with the figures of Giacometti and G\u00e9rard de Nerval. One sculpted, in the aftermath of World War II, what remained of those tattered bodies that had survived the extermination camps; the other, in his poem <i>El Desdichado<\/i>, took pride in having \u201c<i>twice crossed the Acheron as a victor \/ Playing in turn on Orpheus\u2019s lyre \/ The sighs of the saint and the cries of the fairy<\/i>\u201d<i>.<\/i> Bourkia, for his part, carves the pains of existence in fire and ash, on paper and on canvas. Like Orpheus, he rediscovers Eurydice in the guise of art. For art is metamorphosis; a tragic promise of eternity.<\/p><p><b>Hassan Bourkia, \u201cLes sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9,\u201d Comptoir des Mines Galerie, Marrakech, through December 17, 2026.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2220e04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2220e04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11df15c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"11df15c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22258\" alt=\"Hassan Bourkia, *The Paths of Restlessness*, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4417-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hassan Bourkia, <i>Les sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9<\/i>, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ba8b1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6ba8b1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00951e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"00951e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22255\" alt=\"Hassan Bourkia, *The Paths of Restlessness*, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370-972x1024.jpg 972w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370-768x809.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370-1458x1536.jpg 1458w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AHM_4370-300x316.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hassan Bourkia, <i>Les sentiers de l\u2019intranquillit\u00e9<\/i>, 2026, Comptoir des Mines Galerie.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c1c3a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8c1c3a6\" 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