Mounir Eddib (° 1995) is a Moroccan-Belgian painter and mixed media artist raised in Oud-Winterslag (Genk, Belgium), a working-class neighborhood known for its nearby decommissioned coal mines. As the grandson of a miner and the son of Amazigh parents from the Western Saharan borderlands, his autobiographical art is inspired by issues of belonging, the rawness of industrial landscapes and North African mythology. Eddib draws on Amazigh, Sahrawi, and Islamic folk rituals and magical practices to imbue his art with amulet-like properties, and to re-imagine the forgotten histories of former mining sites. 

(Photo Stefanie Schaut, commissioned by Diptyk Magazine)