(29 Apr 2025)
MOROCCO ART SHOW
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rabat, Morocco – 15 April 2025
1. Banner with exhibition title, reading (Arabic/English/French): "A Maze of Power"
2. Portraits of the leader of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara (left) and the former president of Senegal, Macky Sall
3. Visitor looking at a portrait of the former president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo
4. American artist Kehinde Wiley talking to a group of reporters
5. Cameraman filming a portrait of former president of Guinea, Alpha Conde
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kehinde Wiley, artist:
"The maze is a great metaphor because in the beginning, I have no idea where I’m going. I’m turning left and I’m turn right, I am trying to get people to say yes to a project whose form and whose contours I know not. I don’t even know what the poses are gonna be at the end of this thing, whether or not they’re going to say, yes, even to the proposition. The maze for me was that. But I think the maze also for each leader when they take on office, when they take on power, is a series of daily challenges of how to wield that power, how to negotiate their offices. And so it’s about me and my decisions, it’s about them and their personal decisions. And if we pull really far back, it’s about the representation of power for hundreds of years that starts in Western Europe and the depictions of people like Napoleon, who really start to set in the vocabulary of the depiction of power and its use."
7. Visitors looking at a portrait of Akufo-Addo
8. Portrait of the head of state of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso
9. Visitors walking through exhibition
10. Portrait of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi
11. Visitors at the exhibition
12. Various of Wiley talking to reporters
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kehinde Wiley, artist:
"The viewership of young people here in Africa is just as complicated and just as exciting to see in the 21st century. I think so much of the looking now is not only based on what people are seeing in the streets every day in their own countries, but also increasingly what they see in their devices. And those conversations are plural. They’re shared. They’re tribal. Not tribal in terms of ethnicity or geography, but tribal in terms of social media space. And I think that’s also what brings us a series of possibilities, too. A series of interesting provocations. How do we look at paintings now when we can now share them with friends all over the world and get comments from friends all of the world?"
14. Various of Wiley and visitors talking
15. Exhibition coordinator Salima Aissaoui talking to a visitor
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Salima Aissaoui, coordinator of the exhibition:
"He meets with the heads of state, but he doesn’t immediately start painting them — no, first he talks with them. He discusses the history of art, of painting, what it means to represent a head of state, a figure of power. Only after that does he create photographic portraits, which he then takes back to his studio."
17. Portrait of the former president of Madagascar Hery Rajaonarimampianina
18. Portrait of the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe
19. President of the National Foundation of Museums Mehdi Qotbi looking at the portrait of an African leader
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Mehdi Qotbi, President of the National Foundation of Museums:
21. Various of portraits of two African leaders
STORYLINE:
The maze "is a series of daily challenges of how to wield that power, how to negotiate their offices," Wiley said.
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