Hors-série n°7 — 2025

Al Mahjar, artistes entre deux rives

Produced with CCME for SIEL 2025

Al-Mahjar, Arabic for “land of emigration”, is a special issue produced with the CCME (Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad) for SIEL 2025. It is devoted to artists of the Moroccan diaspora. It opens with an interview with Driss El Yazami and a look back at the migrations that shaped artistic modernity in Morocco. It then gives a voice to several generations of artists, including Hassan Hajjaj, Lalla Essaydi, Yto Barrada, Mounir Fatmi, Najia Mehadji and Hicham Berrada, and includes two carte blanches and a set of portfolios.

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Language: French

Al Mahjar, artistes entre deux rives

In this issue

  • Interview – Driss El Yazami: “I prefer the idea of rootedness to that of integration”
  • History – Migrations through the prism of artistic modernity in Morocco
  • Places of the diaspora
  • Carte blanche – Chourouk Hriech
  • Humour as a creative weapon – Hassan Hajjaj, pope of cool; Mohamed El Baz, an insatiable gatherer; Meriem Bennani’s obviously fake world
  • The body as a battlefield – Lalla Essaydi’s written women
  • Portfolios – Imane Zaoin and Sarah Amrani
  • Diaspora, what impact on creation? – Yto Barrada, between Expat and Repat; Mounir Fatmi’s Tangier; Sara Ouhaddou, heir without an inheritance; Badr El Hammami, teller of buried stories
  • Carte blanche – Malik Nejmi
  • The insolent vitality of figurative painting – Anuar Khalifi, Sufi and funky; Yassine Chouati, sharing introspection; Omar Mahfoudi, painting is a combat sport
  • When the future repairs the past
  • Inhabiting the universal – Driss Aroussi, Mohamed Lekleti, Abdessamad El Montassir, Younès Baba-Ali, Mohssin Harraki and Zakaria Rahmani; Najia Mehadji, somewhere between the floral and the stars; Mustapha Azeroual, archaeologist of light; Hicham Berrada, a world waiting to exist
  • A figure of the art market – Touria El Glaoui, serial entrepreneur

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