Entitled "True Crime Stories", this exhibition follows the series of paintings "The world is going well", introducing a series of 16 canvases which describes, according to the press release, "men and women who, against a black background, display both their beauty and their wounds in a subtle interweaving of the erotic and the macabre", returning in particular to the impact of human action on nature.
Three texts illustrate the artist's works in the catalogue:
- In the first text, art critic Olivier Rachet describes Youssef Wahboun's characters as "guilty of existing".
- Painter Mohamed Cherkaoui emphasises the cathartic power of the paintings.
- Poet and philosopher Hassan Wahbi draws a parallel between the work of Youssef Wahboun and the work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Photo: work from the series "True Crime Stories", Youssef Wahboun, copyrights Aujourd'hui.