‘It’s effortless’: the Moroccan art star who shuns paint and works from his bed

Soufiane Ababri is so against the notion of painters at their easels that he always makes his erotic, irreverent and riotously colourful drawings lying down. Ahead of a major UK show, he reels off the many advantagesSoufiane Ababri, the young, taboo-breaking star of Morocco’s modern art scene, sees creativity as a way to “invert the insults” he has heard all his life. Growing up gay in Morocco, and then becoming an immigrant in France, he was part of what he calls a post-coloni