Noureddine Khayachi was from his earliest years deprived of the love of his mother, and this explains his enormous love for his father and his need to take from his father whatever could make up for that terrible absence of his mother. This is perhaps why he quickly learned to draw and paint, to join his father in every possible way, seeking maternal affection through his father’s love.
Khayachi absorbed his father’s art completely, to communicate with his mother. This partially explains the permanent, omnipotent presence of women in his work. In his paintings, every woman, naked or clothed, dressed or undressed, is an image, rediscovered, reconstituted, of the mother he lost.
This explains his almost obsessional determination to give women the starring role in his art.
