Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch
The Work
Created by the french-moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch, the installation belongs to one of her suspendend scenes devices. We are right in front of a curtain. A curtain of pearls attached to a puff of wires that descend from the ceiling. The phantasmal shadow of the great diva shines through the curtain of the tiny white and red pearls. A curtain of tears and blood, an aparition of beauty and fragility, as told by Echakhch, an artist who has accostumed us to explore the in-between places of things.
Biography
Latifa Echakhch (El Khnansa, 1974) is an artist that has created her stylistic figure around the exchange between different cultures: born in Morocco but raised in France, Echakhch molds her artistic poetics on the dialectic encounter with a plural reality. The feeling of uprootedness and the sense of foreigness towards the customs of other nations have mutated her sensibility and have pushed the artist to want to cross geographical and cultural borders. Through varioyus techniques, Echakhch creates installations and site-specific interventions that dialogue and relate harmoniously with the ctructure and the history of the place that hosts them. Transformation and memory are the roots of the artist's research, which inserts objects dense with semantic and symbolic meaning in places of possibility, where the audience is invited to reflect and be active, welcoming change and embracing their memories.
