stencil
public intervention part of ch[a]rita festival in marrakech.
from al jazari’s “kitāb fī ma’rifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya (the book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices)”.
occupying the empty waters of the zaouiat lahder’s communal fountain, the gesture reveals a history of hydraulic islamic traditions in the space of a refracted image and a lost flow.
from al jazari’s “kitāb fī ma’rifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya (the book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices)”.
occupying the empty waters of the zaouiat lahder’s communal fountain, the gesture reveals a history of hydraulic islamic traditions in the space of a refracted image and a lost flow.