Latifa Echakhch

Latifa Echakhch, (born 1974 at El Khnansa, Morocco. Lives and works in Paris and Zurich). Recent years have seen her become one of the more prominent artists on the new French scene.

Hou Hanrou summed up the key characteristics of Latifa Echakhch’s work last year in the catalogue to his exhibition Wherever We Go/Art, Identity, Culture in Transit: “With a subtle, peaceful sensibility, Latifa Echakhch develops artistic and intellectual projects that evoke a powerful engagement with the reality of post-colonialism and globalisation. She analyses socio-political events and geopolitical climates from singular and radically personal angles, transforming the slightest object, image or everyday situation into a subject of thoroughgoing sociological debate. Her approach to major issues is often discreet and precise, maintaining the distance and space needed for critical study. In the play between the visible and the invisible, full and empty, she weaves an inseparable link between art and reality. The interest of her work makes her one of the most promising figures in the new generation of artists working in France and Europe today.”

At Le Magasin Latifa Echakhch will be occupying La Rue for three months with an original site-specific project.

Solo exhibitions 2007 - Interface, Dijon ; 2006 - Promesse, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Valence ; 2005 - Désert, Show Room, Paris ; 2004 - Call Box, La Box, Bourges ; 2002 - Words don’t come easy to me, Espace Premier Regard, Paris Group exhibitions (selection) 2007 - Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York - Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary- Optimism in the age of global war, Istanbul Biennial, Istambul - Wherever we go, San Francisco, Insitute of art, San Francisco ; 2005 - Formen der Organisation, Kunstraum der Universität, Lüneburg

Latifa Echakhch