V12 Laraki – installation view @Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, USA - 2017

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Mixed media (53 materials)

Middle Atlas white cedar wood, high Atlas red cedar wood, walnut wood, lemon wood, orange wood, ebony wood of Macassar, mahogany wood, thuya wood, Moroccan beech wood, pink apricot wood, mother-of-pearl, yellow copper, nickel plated copper, red copper, forged iron, recycled aluminum, nickel silver, silver, tin, cow bone, goat bone, malachite of Midelt, agate, green onyx, tigers eye, Taroudant stone, sand stone, red marble of Agadir, black marble of Ouarzazate, white marble of BÈni Mellal, pink granite of Tafraoute, goatskin, cowskin, lambskin, resin, cow horn, rams horn, ammonite fossils of the Paleozoic from Erfoud, Ourika clay, geometric terra cotta with vitreous enamel (zellige), green enamel of Tamgrout, paint, cotton, argan oil, cork, henna, rumex. 465 parts, 660 bolds made of casted copper

  • Year: 2013
  • Size (closed for transport): 110cm x 90cm x 86cm
  • Size (open for display): 180cm x 150cm x 150cm
  • Weight: 380 kg
  • Edition: Unique
  • Courtesy: Collection of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
  • Photo: Alison Palizzolo