Fajr - 2017 Lois Patino

n the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies. Stillness concentrates gaze and duration densify it. The adhan -muslim call to pray- sounds and immobility, that was condensing, begins to irradiate. And now the bodies are those which dissolves into the desert. A 12-minute work of a hypnotic, immense heart, and a mesmerizing exercise in beauty that inebriates the transition –or, better yet, the suspended time– from night to dawn in the desert, the scenery of the purification of spirits and the vertical lengthening of the poetic of spaces. Two human figures rise up hieratically in a Moroccan sea of sand and silence. And even if that tour de force with meditation and vertigo will be weakened by the fajr (which means “dawn” as well as “the Muslim canticle that calls for prayer,” the only sound that fragment