Tomek Sikora

“Flying to Morocco…”

A fairy tale… How else could you describe a space made up of elements known only from fables and films? It is a kind of fiction, a theatre with actors presenting the humdrum of their lives in their own set design, using exceptional forms. Raising their heads and smiling, they shout at me: Ali Baba! How are you? Then they disappear in the abyss of murky Middle Ages.

I have registered these phantoms day by day, and night by night, as they appeared in light and ambience that I recalled from my childhood fantasies. I hurried to steal as many images as possible before that beautiful dream was gone.

—Tomek Sikora, Morocco 2006

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