Trust
Outside the wall
- Artist
- DAMSSILI (Mohamed Damssili)
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 65 × 41 cm
- Style
- Orientalism · 18th century
An old man takes a break beside his camel, outside the walls of the old city of Taroudant.
The painting highlights the strong bond between the camel and its owner: the animal keeps watch while he naps after a long day of travel.
A pause outside the walls of Taroudant
Taroudant is a walled city in the Souss valley of southern Morocco, surrounded by ochre ramparts. It is the home town of the painter and the setting of many of his canvases.
In Trust (2019, 65 × 41 cm), an old man takes a break beside his camel just outside the old city. The painting is about the bond between the animal and its owner: the camel keeps watch while the man naps after a long day of travel.
The title speaks of that silent confidence between a man and his animal, a theme of Moroccan orientalist painting treated here as a quiet, everyday scene rather than a spectacle.
See also: Abandoned · Echoes of Freedom