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The Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans Living Abroad is organizing the exhibition «Retrospectives, Series 1: 1001 Dreams, Series 2: Sediments» by the Moroccan-American artist Yasmina Alaoui, from May 15 to June 14, 2025, at the Espace Rivages. The opening is scheduled for the first day of this event, which highlights the work of an artist born in New York, trained in fine arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, as well as at the College of William & Mary in the United States. In this exhibition, she will showcase her series blending photography, drawing, and painting. Through a multidisciplinary approach, her work «questions conceptual contrasts such as tradition and modernity».
Explaining her choice, Yasmina Alaoui embraces her eclectic practice, which allows her to «explore a wide range of materials and themes». In this exhibition, her first series «is figurative and aesthetic». «The works are delicate, intimate, almost whispered. The second, in contrast, is a series of large formats, between painting and sculpture, chaotic, raw, traversed by abstract Arab geometry», she emphasizes, describing «two poles in tension, yet deeply complementary» in her approach.
In this regard, the organizers remind us that Yasmina Alaoui «explores different mediums, from painting and drawing to sculpture, including photography, cinema, and musical composition». «Her artistic approach, nourished by a cross-pollination of media and cultural influences, was recognized with the cultural diversity award at the Dakar Biennale in 2018», according to a press release.
Since 2003, the artist has been collaborating with photographer Marco Guerra on the series Tales of Beauty and 1001 Dreams, often exhibited worldwide. Now sharing her life and work between New York and Marrakech, the artist has multiplied international exhibitions, both solo and collective, since 2008. Her works have been shown in Senegal, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Italy, and several cities in Morocco.
Committed to this logic of diversity, Yasmina Alaoui is part of a contemporary aesthetic while placing her Moroccan roots at the heart of her work, particularly through the materials she uses. «It is this fusion between two worlds that defines me, and which, I believe, makes the uniqueness of my work», she asserts.
