Jamila Lamrani graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan in 1998.
The artist likes to vary techniques that support her work but space remains her favored tool. She constructs it with from a fragile architecture made from dark fabrics evocative of the secret recesses of memory, she builds infinite layers of shadow and light that are just as fissured with openings to the dream world. In her recent installations, drawers are used, enclosing the memories of hope filled by past lives. The distance imposed by her installations, with a maze of stretched strings that resemble bars and suggest both a chosen and subjected imprisonment of the individual within a society traversed by ambiguities and tensions. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Morocco and (France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, UK, USA,…), including the Dakar Biennial of Contemporary Art, in Senegal in 2002. She took part in two projects conceived around the DREAM by Curator Marie Deparis Yafil, the exhibition “Beyond my dreams” in 2012 and in 2013 the project « Au- delà de mes rêves » shown in Royal Monastery of Brou and H2M, in Bourg-en-Bresse, in resonance with the Biennale of Lyon.
In 2014,She took part in the project “Maroc : Identities” at the Institut des Cultures de l’Islam in Paris.In 2015, his works were exhibited at the Museum of Photography and Visual Arts in Marrakech in an exhibition entitled “Trace of the future”. At the end of 2015, she participated with her installation “Africa Dreams” at the International Artistic Event “Lumières d’Afrique” conceived by African Artists for Development – AAD- a project presented on the sidelines of the COP21 at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, France. This traveling exhibition was shown in June 2016 at the Donwahi Foundation in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and IFAN Museum in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2017, also in March 2017 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
End of 2016, the artist was in artistic residency at Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito / San Francisco California , USA.
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