Marrakech has a space it offers to the world. And one it offers to its inhabitants.

Behind the polished murals guarding tourists, under-construction avenues and red building blocks constitute the new urbanistic landscape for the Marrakchis. Three hills rise above this, especially after the recent rains, drawing a new green coat across the land and offering citizens something rare: a third space, however temporary.

A fraction of the day belonging to neither home nor work and even less to consumption: the 1/3. On these slopes, the asphalt ends and a different kind of time begins. Once a slave market or a restricted military zone that drew the first lines of colonial urbanism into the city, it is now where residents come for the mercy of the distance, pushing the chaos back down into the valley.

This exhibition was born from SHEDDING, a photo-documentary program bringing together local photographers and the WAH Collective in a shared humanistic process of socio-political fieldwork and curation. Produced by the WAH Collective and participating photographers Ait El Moumen Dounia, Youssef Sebti, Ayoub Alahyane, and Ismail El Aaddioui, the exhibition was made in partnership with the cultural center Les Étoiles de Jemaa el-Fna Marrakech and l'Institut Français.