Neighborhood Goggles
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Meriem Bennani
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Meriem Bennani’s Neighborhood Goggles is like looking through a device that gives special access to buildings and how they think. Made in collaboration with Moroccan rapper Lil Patty whose verses create a multilingual portrait of the impact of affluence and aspiration in Rabat. The homes of Rabat, Morocco—Modernist-like, Arabic-inspired, styled after countryside villas—come to life to tell their tales, to share the habits of their occupants, to compete with one another in their opulence or modesty, or to lament their post-bankruptcy plight. What their owners might keep hidden from us, these buildings are quick to reveal to one another.