Latifa Echakhch

Latifa Echakhch

BornNationalityBased In
1974French/MoroccanParis, Vevey
Biography

Born in 1974 in El Khnansa, Morocco. Lives and works in Switzerland. Latifa Echakhch often introduces associations with ‘cultural mementos’ that reveal a complicated relationships, where symbolic valency is subtracted, its absence suggesting an entirely new meaning and presence. Echakhch re-imagines and re-evaluates found objects and defamiliarizes the vernacular, questioning the meaning embedded in these and, in general, our own relationship and preconceptions towards such objects. Only when supposedly known objects have been emptied of their original meaning can they be read in many ways. Referencing and appropriating the archetypes, ideologies of modernism and beyond, she reflects on the often-prejudiced perception of national and religious identities in works that are both poetic and conceptual, and questions the semantics of cultural paradigms, providing instead what the artist calls “poetic transfiguration”. ...

Selected Artworks
Derives 18
Latifa Echakhch
Derives 18, 2011
200 x 150cm
Entre la nuit et l’aurore (Between night and dawn)
Latifa Echakhch
Entre la nuit et l’aurore (Between night and dawn), 2025
120 x 155 x 95cm
A chaque stencil une revolution, une apres l'autre
Latifa Echakhch
A chaque stencil une revolution, une apres l'autre, 2009
86 x 21 x 29cm
Untitled (black clouds)
Latifa Echakhch
Untitled (black clouds), 2015
101 x 268 x 14cm
A fine rain is falling, the skin has goosebumps. Rub the arms to warm them up and then start running again
Latifa Echakhch
A fine rain is falling, the skin has goosebumps. Rub the arms to warm them up and then start running again, 2019
200 x 150 x 2.5cm
Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch)
Latifa Echakhch
Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch), 2022
200 x 150 x 2.6cm
Screen Shot R.M
Latifa Echakhch
Screen Shot R.M, 2015
173 x 300 x 2cm
Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch)
Latifa Echakhch
Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch), 2023
200 x 300 x 3cm
The All
Latifa Echakhch
The All, 2023
200 x 150 x 3cm
Tambour '57
Latifa Echakhch
Tambour '57, 2012
173 x 173 x 5cm
Dérives
Latifa Echakhch
Dérives, 2015
200 x 150cm
Sans titre (jardin exotique)
Latifa Echakhch
Sans titre (jardin exotique), 2018
200 x 150cm
Stand up straight and high, close the eyes and everything started to spin around. The wind is blowing again
Latifa Echakhch
Stand up straight and high, close the eyes and everything started to spin around. The wind is blowing again, 2019
200 x 150cm
Sun Set Down
Latifa Echakhch
Sun Set Down, 2022
200 x 150 x 5cm
The Dark Days
Latifa Echakhch
The Dark Days, 2024
206 x 156 x 3.5cm
The Dark Days
Latifa Echakhch
The Dark Days, 2024
206 x 156 x 3.5cm
Awards
Zurich Art Prize2015
Zurich Art Prize2015
Marcel Duchamp Prize2013
Marcel Duchamp Prize2013
Biennals
Gwangju Biennial2023 - Gwangju
Gwangju Biennial2023 - Gwangju
Venice Biennial2022 - Venice
Venice Biennial2022 - Venice
Istanbul Biennial2017 - Istanbul
Istanbul Biennial2017 - Istanbul
The Biennale of Sydney2012 - Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney2012 - Sydney
Venice Biennial2011 - Venice
Venice Biennial2011 - Venice
La Biennale de Lyon2009 - Lyon
La Biennale de Lyon2009 - Lyon
Manifesta2008
Manifesta2008
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