Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch (Arabic: لطيفة الشخش; born 1974 in , Morocco) is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
Early life and education[]
Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three.[1] She attended the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and graduated from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts.[2][3]
Career[]
Echakhch began her career in 2002.[2] In 2008 she was invited to exhibit her work at Tate Modern in London.[4] In 2011 she participated to the Venice Biennale.[5][6] She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.[2][3] , director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism."[7] In December 2015 she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the , GET OUT.[2]
Exhibitions[]
- 2007: Le Magasin, Grenoble
- 2008: Tate Modern, London
- 2009: Fridericianum, Kassel
- 2009: Latifa Echakhch – Partitures, , Bielefeld.
- 2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, New York
- 2010: Le Rappel des oiseaux, ; then in the (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy.
- 2012: Latifa Echakhch – The Birds. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
- 2013: Latifa Echakhch – Laps, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon[8]
- 2013: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles[6]
- 2015: Latifa Echakhch – Screen Shot, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. 2015,
- 2016: Cross Fade, The Power Plant, Toronto.
- 2017: Crowd Fade, , İstanbul.
- 2018: Falling, Lovely and beautiful, KIOSK, Ghent.
- 2018: Le Jardin Mécanique, New National Museum of Monaco.
- 2018: Sensory Spaces 14, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
- 2019: Romance, , Rome.
- 2019: Freedom and Tree, .
- 2020: The sun and The Set, , Charleroi.
Private life[]
Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland.
Monographs[]
- Kamel Mennour, Latifa Echakhch, texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Latifa Echakhch, Annabelle Gugnon, Bernard Marcadé, Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France, JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag / Les Presses real, 2012, ISBN 978-2-914171-46-5
- Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1 , Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France,
References[]
- ^ Lunn, Felicity (1 January 2011). "Latifa Echakhch". Frieze.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Chardon, Elisabeth (11 December 2015). "Latifa Echakhch, la résistance par l'art" [Latifa Echakhch: Resistance through art]. Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Le prix Marcel Duchamp 2013 attribué à Latifa Echakhch" [The 2013 Marcel Duchamp prize given to Latifa Echakhch]. The Huffington Post (in French). AFP. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Latifa Echakhch |". Flash Art. November 16, 2016.
- ^ "54th Venice Biennial, 2011". Universes in Universe. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Blouin (10 January 2013). "Latifa Echakhch Tears Down the Circus at the Kunsthaus Zurich". ArtInfo. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Le Marcel-Duchamp remis à Latifa Echakhch" [The Marcel Duchamp awarded to Latifa Echakhch]. Libération. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
Son œuvre, entre surréalisme et conceptualisme, questionne avec économie et précision l’importance des symboles et traduit la fragilité du modernisme.
- ^ Lasnier, Jean-François (29 March 2013). "La poésie visuelle de Latifa Echakhch" [The visual poetry of Latifa Echakhch]. Connaissance des Arts (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- 1974 births
- Living people
- French contemporary artists
- French installation artists
- Moroccan emigrants to France
- Swiss contemporary artists