Kesh Angels, Marrakesh, 2010/1431. 2010.
“I like to push people’s buttons. Here, I wanted to play with the way veiled women riding motorbikes might seem jarring from
a Western perspective. I cal
(...) led them Kesh Angels—with Kesh short for Marrakech, and Angels from the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. In a few images, they’re wearing their own clothing. The only props I gave them were some socks and heart-shaped sunglasses, just to have a bit of fun with the cliché of rock stars or bikers in leather jackets.
There were four cinemas in my town when I was growing up in Morocco. I remember the movie posters they’d put in their windows. They had these powerful single images your mind could latch onto, allowing anyone who couldn’t afford a ticket to imagine the whole film. That’s what I wanted to create here—a still from a movie you haven’t seen.”
- Hassan Hajjaj
Copyright © Hassan Hajjaj
