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Commissioned by the 6th Marrakech Biennale, The Contractor’s Heel originated as a theatrical staging of sculptures at the remarkable remains of the 16th-century El Badi Palace, or The Incomparable Palace. Jumana Manna’s body of sculptures take the edifice’s current material state as its starting point, while developing her ongoing interest in archaeology and heritage sites as arenas of modern myth production. Generated from the shapes and lines detected in the vast clay walls of the Palace, the sculptural forms of The Contractor’s Heel mimic its surface encrustations, or suggest some …