After hours
Nocturne
The gallery has closed for the day. Walk slowly. The paintings have not finished speaking.
Sema
A dervish caught at the moment of turning. The right palm lifts to receive, the left tilts down to give. The red felt cap stays steady; the world below it spins. A study of devotion made entirely of motion.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 40 × 50 cm
She Wore the Tulip
A figure sits cross-legged with a great tulip leaning over her face. The flower is heavier than it looks. The work studies what a body carries when it has agreed to hold something beautiful.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 40 × 50 cm
Three White Lisianthus
Three blooms working out their geometry against a peach wall — one closed, one opening, one already wide. Painted slowly, in the patient way the flowers themselves prefer to move.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 50 × 70 cm
The Year of the Mask
Bougainvillea over her shoulder, a paper mask covering everything but the eyes. The painting holds the strangeness of that spring — the way beauty kept arriving anyway, and had to be carried at a distance.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 40 × 60 cm
Atay, with the Moon Behind
Glass, brass, and the small steam still leaving the cup. Painted from a Moroccan evening — palm fronds at the window, the moon held in a keyhole arch, the pot still warm to the touch.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 30 × 40 cm
Toward the Sun
Two figures crossing into a sun the size of the sky. The man carries a staff; the woman, behind him, carries what the painting will not name. A study of walking, and of what walking together can mean.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 40 × 60 cm
Self-Portrait with Thorns
An orange coat, a carefully painted mouth, and where a face should be — a paddle cactus, spines forward. A second cactus rises from the breast pocket like a small heart. The work studies the cost of being approached.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 50 × 60 cm
A Morning in Chefchaouen
The blue city, painted from a stairwell that goes only up. An aloe in a terrazzo pot, a small cactus on the third step, a lantern hung where the alley narrows. A town that paints itself awake each morning.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Format
- 30 × 40 cm
Goodnight
Eight paintings, made slowly. The lights have been turned out. Come again tomorrow, or sit with what you saw.
Loon gallery · Works by Loubna Lahmoudi