OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (2017) The figure of the virgin appears over and over again in this exhibition and recalls Catholic and well as Islamic iconography. Mehdi-Georges Lahlou goes about entangling codes and origins to produce hybrid icons. In Conference of the birds, the face of the Madonna is replaced by birds. The title, taken from a Persian poem of the same name written in the 12th ce…
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Born in 1986 in Casablanca. Lives and works in Marrakech and Taroudant. Self-taught multimedia artist, Mo Baala spent his childhood and his youth in the heart of the souks and bazaars of his heart town, Taroudant in southern Morocco. His passion for reading, cinema, music and philosophy, as well as his particular interest in traditional arts and crafts Moroccan, African and elsewhere consti…
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マラケシュにて、アフリカ写真界は独自の道へ A new museum in Morocco becomes a destination for contemporary art. モロッコに美術館が新設。現代美術のホットスポットになれるか。 By Sean O’Toole The life and work of Leila Alaoui, the celebrated Moroccan documentary photographer, looms large over Marrakech’s newest art institution. Alaoui, who at age thirty-three was shot and killed during an al-Qaeda attack in Ouagadougou, Bur…
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