Latifa Echakhch

Throughout her multidimensional practice, Moroccan–French artist Latifa Echakhch combines a minimal approach with poetic sensitivity. In her work, conceptualism coexists with the personal, sociological and cultural charge of objects, whether they are paintings, sculptures or installations.

The painting Les Figures employs layering as a method of composing fragments of possible readings. Alluding to the first three years of her life spent in Morocco, the intriguing image resembling a Byzantine icon uncovers the traces of two characters and a background of ornamentation. Reflecting on the idea of palimpsestic cultures, where histories, philosophies, and ruins are layered upon one another, Echakhch mirrors the complexity of memory and its intrinsic ambivalence. While gesturing toward exile and displacement, she reminds us that cultural identity is never fixed but constantly rewritten.