{"product_id":"the-classroom-hicham-benohoud","title":"The Classroom - Hicham Benohoud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Classroom\u003c\/em\u003e explores control and discipline within post-colonial Moroccan identity through staged, uncanny classroom images created between 1994 and 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrustrated by Morocco’s rigid educational system of the 1990s, art teacher Hicham Benohoud used photography as a pedagogical tool, creating a makeshift darkroom in his classroom to foster collaborative and hands-on learning, encouraging students to engage with creativity and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting images created with his students are marked by tension and alienation, blending absurdity, humour, and unease in their exquisitely framed and obliquely disarming compositions. In juxtaposing the monotony of the classroom with a visual exploration of both freedom and control,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Classroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebuilds a playful and existential critique of postcolonial identity, where childlike creative gestures merge into a more ambiguous aesthetic that hints at oppression, violence and isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new publication by Loose Joints draws from the artist's original archive of negatives from the time, building the first\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomprehensive appraisal of Benohoud’s ground-breaking series while highlighting the modern relevance of the work in its engagement with performance, politics, pedagogy and the body decades ahead of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAuthor: Hicham Benohoud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePublisher: Loose Joints\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePublished: 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePages: 144\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDimensions: 6.69 × 9.06 in\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loose Joints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075416047803,"sku":null,"price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/1778\/1179\/files\/F31E1DB1-23D4-4989-B77E-06884CF9BEF3.jpg?v=1764359136","url":"https:\/\/nyc.doyoureadme.de\/products\/the-classroom-hicham-benohoud","provider":"dyrm?! x VP, Inc. ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}