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Among these symbols, the permanent presence of the woman's body in its various details, the carrier pigeon, the birds, the fingers which move coquettishly, the piercing eyes, the wings which transport lovers and dreamers...". Abdel-Ilah Chahidi paints the markers of our collective memory far
from any alienation and loss of identity. He diverts the meaning of the unusual scenes that he perceives and disrupts the immediate readability of his work which very often connotes enjoyment and humanized atmospheres. The basic referential element for this artist is the traces of memory; the colors of dreams and the polyformity of tasks juxtaposed through a stylistic treatment evoking the rhetoric of depth, transparency and substitution. A creator with skin-deep sensitivity, Abdel-Ilah Chahidi is
unanimously considered a major figure of the new pictorial movement. He has a natural gift for making matter speak, for making colors vibrate and for transcending the horizons of inspiration.