Maouja Menhouta
(Sculpted Wave)

 
 
 Azdine Sedjal

Rocks, like sculpted waves, are carried by the river, then brought and thrown to its center and its banks. I feel as though I am carried with them, but I like to be carried---like a foreign wave among these disparate waves---in order to partake of this new rhythm and identify with this new space that comes from the water. . . . Water, whose beauty is hidden in the desert, is here exposed on the surface of the landscape like a long rapid line and continues until it rejoins the sea---an inverted desert with the water above and the sand below. The sea and desert are equivalent.

Editor's Note
Maouja Menhouta, a wooden sculpture formed with snow fencing and installed in a river, was a continuation of Sedjal's investigations in the role of water in the environment.