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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Interview by Charlotte Jansen

A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou’s best photograph

A man in a white robe and white head wrap is surrounded by satellites on his motorbike as he rides through the desert.
‘When I looked around my country, I saw satellite dishes everywhere’ … Paramobile I by Hiba Baddou. Photograph: Courtesy of Loft Art Gallery

This image, Parabomobile, shows a living sculpture I created. A man is riding through the desert on a road near Marrakech that is still partly under construction. He rides a Peugeot 103 motorcycle and carries 21 satellite dishes – each pointing in a different direction. But the person driving the motorbike is so overstimulated, he cannot choose which way to go – and ends up going nowhere.

It is part of a wider multidisciplinary project, Paraboles, that is an inquiry into Moroccan people’s identity, our imagination and the way we see the world. It can feel to Moroccans – and those in other postcolonial countries – that their minds have been colonised as well as their land.

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