Latifa Echakhch
Moroccan-French visual artist (born 1974)
Latifa Echakhch (Arabic : لطيفة الشخش ; born 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Working in Switzerland , she 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 El-Khnansa , 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] Alfred Pacquement [fr ] , 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 Haute École d'art et de design Genève [fr ] , GET OUT .[ 2]
Exhibitions
A chaque stencil une révolution in Art Basel 2010, Kleinbasel [de ]
2007: Le Magasin , Grenoble
2008: Tate Modern , London
2009: Fridericianum , Kassel
2009: Latifa Echakhch – Partitures , Bielefelder Kunstverein [de ] , Bielefeld
2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York , New York
2010: Le Rappel des oiseaux , FRAC Champagne-Ardenne [fr ] ; then in the Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo [it ] (GAMeC), Bergamo , Italy
2012: Latifa Echakhch – The Birds . Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus , Frankfurt
2013: Latifa Echakhch – Laps , Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon , Lyon [ 8]
2013: Hammer Museum , Los Angeles [ 6]
2015: Latifa Echakhch – Screen Shot , Zurich Art Prize 2015, Haus Konstruktiv , Zürich
2016: Cross Fade , The Power Plant , Toronto
2017: Crowd Fade , Istanbul Biennial , Istanbul
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 , Fondazione Memmo , Rome
2019: Freedom and Tree , Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
2020: The sun and The Set , BPS22 , Charleroi
2022: The Concert , Swiss Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale .[ 9]
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
Thierry Raspail [fr ] , Latifa Echakhch. Laps , Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon , 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1
References
^ Lunn, Felicity (1 January 2011). "Latifa Echakhch" . Frieze .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ "Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia" . Retrieved 22 April 2022 .
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