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His work first came to attention in when he was invited to participate in The Disoriented Object at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. By , Rahmoun started working in a way that directly engages with his spiritual exploration, incorporating Sufi thought into his work as well as Oriental philosophy. What I do is simply a reflection of myself. In my artistic work, I seek to discover myself and explain my own path of exploration.

My work is the trace and the concrete result of that exploration. In the video animation Habba a seed travels through space in search for the ideal place to grow. The seed is given life.

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It takes root and produces branches and, in turn, fruit and new seeds. This is the cycle of life and a visualisation of the repetition inherent within our day to day existence. The use of numbers is another recurrent motif, employed by Rahmoun to directly reference Sufi faith. For example, in Zahra Saghira seventy-seven flowers are depicted in simple pencil drawings, each flower is unique but with an identical red dot — or seed — at its heart.

The seventy-seven flowers refer to the seventy-seven branches of faith in Islam.