Art
Architecture
Design
Publications
Lives and works between Casablanca and Paris
Represented by Loft Art Gallery.
My work explores a simple and recurring conceptual idea: life is a succession of days and nights. Yet, as an architect and designer, I’m also interested in how our existence is technology-textured. Prior to their existence as tools in uses, technologies are first the perceptual structure of our existence; devices or invisible matrices produced by culture and history, into which our potential experience-of-the-world is cast. In that sense, the phenomenality of new digital technologies, such as AI, radically alters our representation of the world and our being-in-the-world or feeling-in-the-world.
As I question the relationship between dualism and the experimentation of our inner spaces and emotions, this shift has been essential in understanding the value and semiotic contribution of design in our world. If design is making sense of things, it then extends it our factitive role as producers of experiential enchantments in the art worlds.
For several years now, I’ve been developing an artistic project that explores the idea that life unfolds through an incessant cycle of days and nights. This passage between light and darkness is not just a natural reality, but a reflection of our own inner and collective transitions.
Through this work, I invite the audience to consider the cycles that govern not only the natural world - the movements of the sun, moon and stars - but also the rhythms that are specific to people and nations. By revisiting key moments in my personal history and in our shared history, I seek to redefine the way we perceive the present moment, and to encourage us to collectively reinvent our future.
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2015
Amur Yakus, Loft Art Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
1-54 Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
A drawing for Morocco, Paris Internationale 9, Paris, France
XYZT, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
1-54 New York, NYC, USA
L'art, un jeu sérieux, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Taymour Grahne Gallery, London, UK
État d’urgence d’instants poétiques, 4th Edition, Jardin d’essais botaniques and Le Cube Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco
Casablanca Design Week,
École des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca, Morocco
The Cloud, National School of Architecture, Rabat, Morocco
If Algae mattered, a speculative map of the Mediterranean, 4th Design Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
New South, La Galerie du Crous, Paris, France
2024
2023
2021
2021
2014
Uzbekistan National Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
XYZT, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Outsider/Insider, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Residencies
Sidi Harazem, Aziza Chaouni Projects, Fez, Morocco
Awards
City Vision Prize, Wuho Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
MACAAL, Fondation Alliance, Morocco
Awards
City Vision Prize, Wuho Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Education
École Spéciale d’Architecture. Paris, France
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil