The history of my practice is overwhelmingly informed by my status as hybrid migrant, a condition associated to 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 up fascinating ways of playing with representation in art.
My father as a first generation migrant used to tell us that we had no safety net and the integration in another country was necessary. However, I chose to refuse the concept and the practice of assimilation and instead, I cherished the status of hybridity which to me, offers a rich mix of backgrounds, voices, and belongings.
Even though I will eternally feel foreign and possibly always displaced, I have earned through my experience an incredible strength which comes from the power of mobility, and the sense of freedom brought to me through the multitude of roots, languages and cultures I have grown up with.
It is precisely in this fine space between the ideal that a new life in a new place can offer, mixed with the regret of loss and nostalgia that is carried through the process of migration, that I have chosen to situate my practice and through which I work to represented feelings of floating freedom, but also of fear and insecurity.
My sculptures and paintings are little familiar objects that weave stories. These small objects act as bearers of hope and bridges making the link between cultures. An empty chair symbolises what we left behind and keeps us connected to our roots. A lonely boat, is a bearer of hope. A floating bridge invites us to build connections and empathy towards the unknown.
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2024
Solo Shows - Echos de terres evanescentes - African arty gallery, Casablanca.
2023
Solo Shows - Glide through evanescent lands - Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery Berlin, Germany
2022
Solo Shows - When hope smells like petrichor - Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, London, UK.
2020
Solo Shows - Untold stories - Galerie Siniya 28, Marrakech.
2019
Solo Shows - Art Research and Migration Workshop - Goldsmiths College, London.
Solo Shows - Because these wings are no longer wings to fly - Arts Cabinet, London.
2018
Solo Shows - Collaboration with Alex Hammersly and Hollandridge Group - London, UK.
Solo Shows - Tierra y raices - Casa Arabe, Madrid.
Solo Shows - Un œil ouvert sur le monde arabe - Institut du Monde Arabe , Paris.
2013
Solo Shows - Terre et racines - Voice gallery, Marrakech.
2011
Solo Shows - Untitled - Galerie d'art Espace Expressions CDG, Rabat.
Group Shows
2024
Group Shows - Untitled - Not a Museum, Lisboa.
2023
Group Shows - Contemporary dilemmas eternal displacements - Rofa Projects, Potomac.
2022
Group Shows - Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From - Alberta Art Gallery of Edmonton, Canada.
Group Shows - Re-Composing - Palazzo Bembo, Venice.
Group Shows - Don't ask me where I'm from - Orlando museum of art, USA.
2021
Group Shows - Untitled - Galerie Géraldine Zberro, Paris.
Group Shows - Facing the sun - Schloss Görne, Germany.
Group Shows - Thinking out loud - Pulpo Gallery, Murnau.
2020
Group Shows - Don't Ask Me Where I'm From - Gallerie delle prigioni, Treviso.
Group Shows - Don't Ask Me Where Im From - Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
Group Shows - The Devil's on the detail - Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, London.
2019
Group Shows - Œuvres et recherches - GVCC, Casablanca.
Group Shows - Wondrous Worlds - Michael Haas gallery, Berlin.
2018
Group Shows - Untitled - Galerie Geraldine Zberro, Paris.
Group Shows - La Sfinge Nera II - Primo Marella Gallery, Milan.
Group Shows - Untitled - GVCC, Casablanca.
Group Shows - BLACK SPHINX II - Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano.
Group Shows - Untitled - Galerie 21, Geneva.
2016
Group Shows - Merchants of dreams - Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark.
Group Shows - Merchants of dreams - Brandts 13, Denmark.
Group Shows - Untitled - Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat.
2015
Group Shows - Femmes et religion - Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat.
Group Shows - Untitled - Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat.
2014
Group Shows - Luxury of dirt - Voice gallery, Marrakech.
Art Fairs
2024
Art Fairs - Arco Lisboa - Lisboa, Portugal.
2023
Art Fairs - Art Dubai - Dubai, UAE.
Art Fairs - 1-54 Contemporary African - London, UK.
Art Fairs - Menart Fair - Paris, France.
2022
Art Fairs - Art Dubai - Dubai, UAE.
2021
Art Fairs - ART WYNWOOD - Palm Beach, USA
2020
Art Fairs - 1-54 Contemporary African - Marrakech, Morocco.
Art Fairs - SWAB Art Fair - Barcelona, Spain.
Art Fairs - Intersect Art and Design - Chicago, USA.
2019
Art Fairs - Volta Basel - Basel, Switzerland.
Art Fairs - Art Bodensee - Dornbirn, Austria.
Art Fairs - Art Nocturne Knocke - Knocke, Belgium
2017
Art Fairs - AKAA also known as Africa - Paris, France
2016
Art Fairs - AKAA also known as Africa - Paris, France
Art Fairs - 1-54 Contemporary African - London, UK.
2015
Art Fairs - 1-54 Contemporary African - London, UK.
2014
Art Fairs - ARTISSIMA - Turin, Italy.