📸 Retour sur État(s) de passage — une exposition sensible autour de l’entre-deux, du mouvement et de la mémoire qui consacre 13 jeunes artistes nés entre 1985 et 2000.
Le vernissage a rassemblé un public nombreux, de toutes générations, en présence de Madame Agnès Humruzian Directrice générale de l'Institut français du Maroc et de Monsieur Michel Richard, Attaché culturel de l'Ambassade de France au Maroc.
🙏 Un grand merci à Achraf Remok le curateur, à l’Institut National des Beaux-Arts — son staff et ses étudiants — ainsi qu’à toutes celles et ceux qui ont assisté et contribué à cette belle soirée. Exposition à voir jusqu'au 25 avril - entrée gratuite.
📸 عودة على معرض "حالات العبور" — معرض حسّاس يستكشف المساحات بينية، بين الحركة والذاكرة، ويُسلّط الضوء على 13 فنانين وفنانات شباب وُلدوا بين 1985 و2000.
شهد حفل الافتتاح حضورًا جماهيريًا كبيرًا من مختلف الأجيال، بحضور السيدة Agnès Humruzian المديرة العامة للمعهد الفرنسي بالمغرب، والسيد Michel Richard الملحق الثقافي بسفارة فرنسا بالمغرب.
🙏 شكر خاص لأشرف ريموك، منسق المعرض، وإلى المعهد الوطني للفنون الجميلة — طاقمه وطلبته — وكافة الحاضرين الذين ساهموا في إنجاح هذه الأمسية الجميلة.
📍 المعرض مستمر إلى غاية 25 أبريل — الدخول مجاني.
A closer look at the amazing installations from État(s) de passage - our latest exhibition that brought together thirteen talented artists whose practices embody what Deleuze and Guattari call “deterritorialization”: a creative process that escapes fixed logics of belonging.
This exhibition forms part of our Associate Artists Program: an annual initiative designed to foster and support local talent. The program seeks to explore the landscape of artistic creation in Marrakech and develop the Moroccan creative community through events, exhibitions, talks and mentorship programmes.
Thank you to everyone who supported and came to visit this exhibition, and keep your eyes peeled for the next one!
Curated by: Achraf Remok
Art Direction: Aicha Benazzouz
Featured artists: Amina Azreg, Hanane El Farissi, Hiba Baddou, Hind Moumou, Joséphine Vallé Franceschi, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, Maïssane Alibrahimi, Margaux Derhy, Rida Tabit, Sabrine Lahrach, Samy Snoussi, Yasmine Hadni, Zineb Mezzour
Partners: Institut français du Maroc (project lead as part of its 2025–2026 cultural season / J-LIOUM), IZZA (co-lead as part of the IZZA Associates Artists Program)
#ÉtatsDePassage #contemporanyart #Marrakech #154artfair #arthotel
small february dump ~ back in Marrakech two weeks ago for @154artfair opening
ℰ𝓉𝒶𝓉𝓈 𝒹𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒶𝑔𝑒, curated by @achrafremok & artistic direction by @wish.and.kesh is on view until February 26 at @izzamarrakech
❧ Musée d’Art Moderne, Tétouan (March 26 – April 24)
❧ Institut Français, Agadir (May 8 – May 31)
❧ Institut Français, Rabat (June 11 – July 18)
a transforming sugar mosaic, infused with henna, eucalyptus oil, and gilt polyactide, celebrating this itinerant exhibition, ty Achraf و Mouad 🥮
ART RIDE with @achrafremok
An honest conversation about the true purpose of art curation, breaking it down to its simplest and most essential meaning.
We also spoke about his latest project he curated for @izzamarrakech at the @154artfair , and the vision behind creating meaningful dialogues between artists. An inspiring ride, grounded in intention and ambition.
Special thanks to @audimaroc and @154artfair for making this connection possible.
#DrivenbyArt #Audi #154artfair #154artfairmarrakech #AchrafRemok
The Hand as a Tool of Expression, installation 2025/2026
Samy Snoussi makes the hand his subject. Photographs, video, plaster sculptures: three mediums through which he explores the ductus, that flow running through gesture and connecting intention to matter.
The photographs isolate hands in close-up. Postures, tensions, folds of skin. The images freeze moments in which the hand becomes landscape and archive. They suggest more than they show, allowing the viewer to complete what is absent.
The video introduces movement. Hands manipulate solids, fluids, resistant materials. The gesture repeats itself, searches, hesitates. The hand operates as a tool of knowledge and experimentation. The ductus appears here as a breathing space between body and matter, where function and expression can no longer be distinguished.
The plaster sculptures attempt to fix the ungraspable: the gesture in progress. They capture a transitional, almost unstable state, where the hand inhabits the in-between. The plaster preserves the trace of this tension, a porous material that retains the memory of movement.
The installation reveals the hand as an extension of thought, a place where the body speaks before words. Snoussi shows how it mediates our relationship to the world, how it transforms intention into form, and how gesture itself becomes a language.
Text by @achrafremok
Curation by @achrafremok and @wish.and.kesh
Part of « états de passage » group show
Partnership with @ifmaroc@izzamarrakech@154artfair
As part of 1-54 Marrakech's public programming, "État(s) de Passage" opened Friday at IZZA, featuring 13 artists born between 1985-2000 whose practices question transnational mobility and shifting identities across territories.
Curated by Achraf Remok with artistic direction by Aicha Benazzouz, the exhibition explores "deterritorialization" through experimental cinema, digital arts, installation, painting, and embroidery spanning Rabat, Paris, Brussels, Marseille, and Zurich.
Led by Institut Français du Maroc within its cultural season and IZZA Associates Artists Program, the exhibition refuses identity assignations while observing how creative forms circulate beyond reductive geographical categorizations.
#154artfair #izza #mwnlifestyle #moroccoworldnews #mwn
It was an honour to collaborate with Moroccan artist & photographer Amina Benbouchta for the second time earlier this year.
Here she talks about her two captivating installations that formed part of Line(s) of Desire; Tempest II (2024) and Le Mystère du Corps Parlant (2022).
Line(s) of Desire was curated back in February by Achraf Remok and directed by our own Art Director Aïcha Benazzouz. The exhibition featured 9 talented artists and explored the boundaries between presence and absence, material and immaterial, permanence and transience.
#154artfairmarrakech #linesofdesire #izzamarrakech #aminabenbouchta #art #moroccanart
We caught up with Moroccan artist Amine Asselman to understand more about the inspiration and ideas behind his MUSAIC project; a beautiful, visual language inspired by the geometry of Zellige.
Two remarkable installations from this project formed part of Line(s) of Desire — the powerful 12-day exhibition we ran earlier this year.
Curated by Achraf Remok (@achrafremok ) and led by our in-house Art Director Aïcha Benazzouz (@wish.and.kesh ), the exhibition brought together nine exceptional artists whose work challenged and redefined perception.
📹 @coleshootspeople
#izzamarrakech #linesofdesire #amineasselman #arthotel #artexhibtion #moroccanartist
We are thrilled to continue to share the stories and behind-the-scenes insights from the talented artists who featured in Line(s) of Desire, our exhibition hosted in partnership with the 1-54 Art Program back in February.
Contemporary visual artist, Souki Belghiti, works with photography and video installations. Aware that cameras are often used as instruments of propaganda, she instead employs them to weave together diverse voices and create dialogues across temporalities.
For this installation, Souki ceates and captures images that explore light and materiality, experimenting with themes of impermanence and decay.
Line(s) of Desire was curated by Achraf Remok (@achrafremok ) and led by our in-house Art Director Aïcha Benazzouz (@wish.and.kesh ).
📹: @coleshootspeople coleshootspeople
#izzamarrakech #154artfair #moroccanartists #soukibelghiti #arthotel #contemporanyart
In light of Amina Agueznay’s nomination to represent Morocco at the Venice Biennale 2026, we’re excited to share this special Q&A exploring the captivating installations she presented at IZZA earlier this year.
Amina was one of nine featured artists in Line(s) of Desire, a powerful group exhibition held back in February. Curated by Achraf Remok (@achrafremok ) and led by our in-house Art Director Aïcha Benazzouz (@wish.and.kesh ), the show challenged conventional frameworks—both physical and conceptual—that shape how we experience the world.
In collaboration with @loftartgallery , and @andedyr Agueznay’s two remarkable works reinterpreted ancestral techniques, transforming them into compelling contemporary narratives.
Congratulations to Amina on this incredible milestone—a powerful moment for Moroccan art on the global stage!
#moroccanart #aminaagueznay #izzamarrakech #arthotel #linesofdesire #moroccanartists
Retour en images — Amina Benbouchta, « Aïta, fragments poétiques d’une scène marocaine » FRAC MÉCA
« J’ai choisi la figure de l’ogre, celui des contes, aux visages multiples, capable de se métamorphoser à l’infini. »
C’est autour de cette figure mouvante et archaïque qu’Amina Benbouchta tisse son installation, projetée à même le mur comme une fresque vivante, hantée par les spectres du féminin.
Des visages apparaissent, disparaissent. Maghrébins, mais aussi intemporels. Universels.
Quels masques leur avons-nous façonnés ? Quels tissus ont-ils reçu en héritage ? De quelles absences sont-ils faits ?
Piège à loup en tension, sabot de Denver serti de perles, archives muettes d’une mémoire intime : chaque objet est un fragment, un prélèvement sensible du corps social.
Ici, l’aita -ce chant profond des chikhates- résonne en sourdine. Il traverse l’espace comme une incantation à la transmission, au féminin multiple, à ce qui résiste et se transforme.
Un grand merci à @soniarecasens et au FRAC MÉCA @fracmeca pour avoir permis à cette parole feutrée, sensible et engagée de trouver son lieu. Crédit photos : Jean-Christophe Garcia
