“I like to connect different parts of the world, namely 'the West' and 'the East' because I am both.”
—Mous Lamrabat

As a Moroccan native who spent every summer in Temsaman while growing up and studying in Belgium, Mous Lamrabat’s (b.1983) visual language centres around questions of identity and inclusion as well as the beauty of North Africa. Photographed in Morocco in 2021 thanks to a grant awarded by FOMU to create work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, To the Moon and Back #1 represents a celebration of ‘love and connection’. For this work, Lamrabat spotted an array of bright red fez on the wall of a Marrakech riad and spontaneously stacked them onto the models’ heads. Of the title, he explains, ‘The texture of the roof reminded me of the texture of the moon. So, we had a moon and we had love.’ This vibrant, uplifting work has been featured in Vogue Arabia (March 2021) and will also be highlighted in the artist’s forthcoming debut monograph to be published in spring 2024.

This offering marks the artist’s debut at auction.

Video interview with Mous Lamrabat on his current exhibition at FOMU, Antwerp. Courtesy of the artist. 

Vogue Arabia, March 2021, cover (variant).
- Exhibited
  Mous Lamrabat: Blessings from Mousganistan, Foam, Amsterdam, 27 May - 4 December 2022
  Mous Lamrabat: Welcome to Mousganistan, Galerie Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse, 2 June - 27 August 2023
  Mous Lamrabat: We Gonna Be Alright, FOMU, Antwerp, 17 February 2023 - 7 January 2024
- Literature
  ‘Moustopia of Being’, Vogue Arabia, March 2021, cover (variant), pp. 28, 127
  Mous Lamrabat: Blessings from Mousganistan, Amsterdam: Foam, 2022, p. 66, pl. 37

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Mous Lamrabat

To the Moon and Back #1

2021
Archival pigment print, mounted.
Image: 150 x 100 cm (59 x 39 3/8 in.)
Frame: 154 x 104 cm (60 5/8 x 40 7/8 in.)
Signed in ink, printed, title, date and number AP2/2 on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work.

This work is AP2 from the sold-out edition of 4 + 2 APs.

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£10,000 - 15,000 ‡

Sold for £12,700

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