Sound marks the first encounter at Soufiane Ababri’s exhibition Here is a strange and bitter crop showing at London’s Space Gallery until 24th November, in a partnership with Glassbox Gallery in Paris. The ambiguous roar of a crowd invites us into an installation of drawings, sound, sculpture and performance that explores masculinity and vulnerability through its most intimate lens, the prism of sexuality – though it would be a disservice to the subtlety of Ababri’s work to suggest that a singular focus means a failure to grapple with the multi-layered complexity of his topic.
