The idea is to visit a few inhabitants of the medina in Marrakech, my hometown. I ask them to make holes in their homes, either in the floor, wall or ceiling. After this in-situ intervention, I ask them to pose for me in these holes before photographing them. Afterwards, I put everything back as it was before leaving as if nothing had happened. These pictures show the social abyss from which many of my fellow citizens suffer, not in a miserabilistic way, but rather in a plastic or artistic way. Metaphorically, they find themselves immobilized in a hole from which they can’t get out, can’t bounce back. They are absorbed by the hole. They have no prospects for the future. They are swallowed up forever.
(Hicham Benohoud in: «People are resigned to social fatalism» – Hicham Benohoud’s work depicts Morocco, LAMPOON, August 28, 2023)