Hasnae El ouarga

As a graduate of the Marrakesh School of Visual Arts, Hasnae El ouarga builds her artistic research on the complexity of the photographic image.

By questioning these mental images represented by the photographs, Hasnae El ouarga engages a process of deconstruction that gives prominence to the unconscious and the resurgences of unexpected memories. In a process of tireless research, it is finally the practice of the cyanotype that allows her to find a unique way of creation, where nature and artifice interfere on the tracks of an invisible memory. In this process of anamnesis, the stone as a natural element becomes the vector of an inaccessible and always present past, like a storyteller of forgotten stories.

Her work has been presented at the Hannah Traore Gallery in New York and the Jajjah Gallery in Marrakesh and has entered the Rockefeller and Dior collections, as well as the collection of the Montresso* Art Foundation in Marrakesh and the National Museum of Photography in Rabat. Her work produced during her residencies at Jardin Rouge was exhibited at London's 1-54 in October 2023.

Submitted by Montresso Art Foundation