Born in Izakarn, Southern Morocco, visual artist, Abdellatif Ilkem creates a variety of controversial and unexpected artworks. The Crossed Arms series displays a variety of animals – pigs, donkeys, gorillas – standing upon their hind legs with arms crossed. Are the animals waiting for instruction? Are they authoritative observers? It is hard to tell, but the unsettling humanness of the animals is a worrying commentary of people and life today. The artifice mocks the institutions of society, what makes humans different from other beasts? The questioning nature of Abdellatif Ilkem’s work is a welcome detour from day to day life.