Category: Morocco
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Soukaina Joual is a Moroccan multi-disciplinary artist born in 1990, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, Morocco in 2011. Her various works showcase an interest in how one’s body can translate and reflect various tensions, dynamics and differences. She usually focuses on the body from different perspectives: how it changes, its’…
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Born in Casablanca, Morocco (1991), lives and works in France. Lina Laraki is a graduate from Central Saint Martins (2014) and Le Fresnoy (2022). Her practice sits between visual arts and cinema. In her short films, Lina stages marginal characters in a fantasised surreal world. Her films have been shown internationally, that includes The Last…
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Salma Mochtari is a researcher and curator based between Marseilles and Arles. A member of the curatorial and editorial collective Qalqalah قلقلة since December 2020, her research often stems from the conceptual circulations between the fields of art and contemporary philosophy. Based on the specific cases of archival absences and black studies, she works the present…
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(1912–1994) A self-taught Moroccan artist who began painting in her later years, and whose work has been exhibited and sold at galleries in Africa and Europe. Radia Bent Lhoucine (also spelled Radia Bent El Houssein) was born in the region of Marrakech in Douar Oulad Youssef (in the province of Kalaât Sraghna) and died in…
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(1982 – 2016) Leila Alaoui, a French–Moroccan photographer and video artist, dedicated her career to shedding light on social injustices and advocating for cultural identity, diversity, migration, and displacement. Born in Paris to a Moroccan father and French mother, Alaoui spent her formative years in Marrakesh, Morocco. The plight of migrants undertaking perilous journeys left…
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(1929 – 2004)A Moroccan painter. Chaïbia was born in Choutka, a small village near El Jadida, Morocco in 1929. At the age of 13, she was sent to Casablanca by her parents to marry a 70-year-old man. By the age of 14 she had given birth to a son (Hocein), and by the age of…
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(1940 – 2009) Born in Essaouira in 1940, Benhila Regraguia was a self-taught artist and one of the few spontaneous artists. She entered the world of visual arts by chance, and the theme of love had a significant impact on her, guiding her into the realm of visual art. Despite the challenges from her conservative…
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Btihal Remli ( b. 1987, Germany out of Moroccan descent) is a visual storyteller focused on art and documentary photography. Based in Morocco, where her family is originally from, Btihal explores stories related to identity, religion and belief, gender and socio-cultural representation in her home country. She has also attempted to convey the juxtaposition between…
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Born in 1973 in Meknes (Morocco). Lives and works in Marrakech. Ghizlane Sahli embroiders, sculpts and draws. She tells of an interior and organic journey, carried by a universal dimension. With the help of ancestral techniques and the know-how of the women artisans who surround her, she develops her contemporary ideas. Together, they create three-dimensional…
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Artist statement: The history of my practice is overwhelmingly informed by my status as a hybrid migrant, a condition associated with second generation migrants. My father is Syrian, my mother Swiss and I was born in Morocco. I am therefore African .The transient nature of my evolution as a person and as an artist opened…
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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…
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Khadija El Abyad is multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Agadir. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts, (Tétouan 2017) and holder of a Master’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Engineering at FLSH Ben M’Sik (Casablanca 2019). Her plastic practice is essentially built around BODY SCREENS in various dimensions: the…
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Mariam Abouzid Souali bears witness to contemporary social, geopolitical, and environmental challenges on local, global, and universal scales. Her recent works immerse us in the world of childhood and the Olympic Games. However, her characters navigate through strange landscapes: containers, highways, mining fields, industrial ports, and many other symbols of overexploitation, climate crises, and migrations.…
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Oumayma Abouzid Souali is a young Moroccan artist, born in 1997 in Rabat. She is currently based between Tetouan and Casablanca. She obtained her Art Diploma in 2021 at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan (INBA). She has experimented with different mediums, including performance, drawing, printmaking, installation, video art, photography and singing. She…