Achraf Touloub

Achraf Touloub’s works inhabit a space between clarity and disruption, drawing the viewer into a prolonged state of visual attunement. His compositions fluctuate between dizzying instability and focused resolution, creating a sense of vertigo that is both disorienting and meditative. In this liminal zone, the act of seeing becomes an ongoing exchange, where perception is stretched and distorted, and the relationship between observer and image is continuously renegotiated. Touloub’s practice thrives on unpredictability, exploring the reverberations and detours that emerge when systems—technical, political, or perceptual—encounter friction. His paintings engage with the shifting dynamics of knowledge, authority, and observation in a world increasingly mediated by technology and artificial intelligence. Moving beyond traditional modes of representation, Touloub imagines gestures and forms that might be comprehensible to non-human perception, proposing a dialogue with emergent ways of seeing. Drawing from historical moments of cosmic alignment, his work investigates thresholds where the visible and invisible intersect. Like an eclipse, his compositions obscure while revealing, positioning painting as a space of encounter, where hallucination and perception converge and where meaning is both constructed and deferred. ...

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