Latifa Echakhch born 1974, El Khnansa, Morocco. Lives and works between Martigny and Vevey, Switzerland.
Working in painting, sculpture and installations, the artist chooses easily recognisable objects invested with a domestic and/or social burden, which she silences through destruction, deletion or by restoring them. This thereby deprives them of their usage value - pushing their function into oblivion - in order to free the memories attached to them. Echakhch summons memories and frees the ghosts that emerge from these objects. The work of Latifa Echakhch is simultaneously conceptual and romantic, both political and poetic.
Latifa Echakhch's work has been presented in France and abroad in numerous solo exhibitions: at Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the macLYON in Lyon; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; MACBA in Barcelona; FRI ART in Fribourg; Frac Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France; Swiss Institute in New York; Tate Modern in London; Le Magasin in Grenoble; KIOSK in Ghent, Belgium; the New National Museum of Monaco; the Memmo Foundation in Rome, Italy; Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany; BPS22, in Charleroi, Belgium; as well as group exhibitions and as part of the Istanbul Biennial, the 54th Venice Biennial, the 11th Sharjah Biennial, the Jerusalem Art Focus Biennial and the Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Echakhch won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. As Alfred Pacquement, then-Director of the Centre Pompidou and head of the jury for the award, said of the artist at the time, “Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism.” In 2015, Echakhch presented Screen Shot at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, and she was awarded the Zurich Art Prize. Latifa Echakhch represented Switzerland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 and was the invited artist of the Messeplatz Project, for Art Basel, Basel, 2023.
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Le Concert (figure 3) , 2022
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Le concert (figure 5), 2022
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Several times, fever tree, 2019
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Screen shot A.M.S., 2015
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Inking (The Autoclean and Memorex cassettes), 2014
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Dérives, 2015
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Nova (a), 2017
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Nude (9), 2017
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Sans titre (jardin exotique), 2018
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Sun Set Down, 2022
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The breeze blows gently, making more and more noise on the foliage. This heavy noise becomes unbearable. Put the hands to the ears and run away, 2019
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Wind Wall Icon , 2021
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Le Concert, 2022
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Eggshell on Palm
Nelly Agassi, Yossi Breger, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin, Moshe Ninio, Ariel Schlesinger, Naama Tsabar, Bri Williams 9 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Paris -
Fenêtre du studio
Aysha E Arar, Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Mircea Cantor, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch, Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin, David Maljkovic, Jonathan Monk, Florian Pumhösl, Sarah Ortmeyer, Ariel Schlesinger 15 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 Paris“Fenêtre du studio” is a group exhibition centered around the question of painting that will take place in parallel to the fair Paris+ by Art Basel. This exhibition will present...Read more -
No Milk Today
Adi Fluman, David Maljkovic, Latifa Echakhch, Menashe Kadishman, Simon Fujiwara, Yossi Breger 8 Sep - 3 Nov 2022 Brussels -
Croque-morts
Barak Ravitz, Ariel Schlesinger, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Latifa Echakhch, Mircea Cantor, Miri Segal, Miroslaw Balka, Naama Tsabar, Pavel Wolberg 2 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Paris -
Salon de Paris
Ariel Schlesinger, Barak Ravitz, David Maljkovic, Dor Guez, Douglas Gordon, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jonathan Monk, Lawrence Weiner, Lisetta Carmi, Matan Mittwoch, Melik Ohanian, Mircea Cantor, Miroslaw Balka, Naama Tsabar, Nedko Solakov, Pavel Wolberg 21 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Brussels -
and on the eyes / black sleep of night
Latifa Echakhch, Lisetta Carmi, Simon Fujiwara 12 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 BrusselsDvir Gallery is pleased to present ‘and on the eyes black sleep of night’ an exhibition of Lisetta Carmi, Latifa Echakhch et Simon Fujiwara. Carmi saw photography as an important...Read more -
Lacrimae Rerum, homage to Gustav Metzger – Part I
Gustav Metzger, Latifa Echakhch, Marianne Berenhaut, Miroslaw Balka 3 Sep - 20 Oct 2020 Brussels -
News from Home
Ariel Schlesinger, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Latifa Echakhch, Naama Tsabar, Remy Zaugg, Sarah Ortmeyer 30 May - 15 Aug 2020 Brussels
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latifa echakhch's music festival invites all to the messeplatz at art basel 2023
Myrto Katsikopoulou, designboom, June 14, 2023 -
People may not be prepared: Latifa Echakhch brings experimental classical music to Basel's Messeplatz
Chinma Johnson-Nwosu, The Art Newspaper, June 13, 2023 -
Latifa Echakhch and seeing things as if they’re vibrating (an interview)
Haseeb Ahmed, GFA, July 1, 2021
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Latifa Echakhch and Omer Fast : The 17th edition of the Lyon Biennale
April 11, 2024Dvir gallery is delighted to share the participation of Latifa Echakhch and Omer Fast at the 17th edition of the Lyon Biennale Entitled 'Les voix...Read more -
ADEL ABDESSEMED, MIRCEA CANTOR AND LATIFA ECHAKHCH AT HANGAR Y, PARIS
HANGAR Y, PARIS March 22, 2023Dvir Gallery is delighted to share “In the air, flying machines” at Hangar Y in Meudon. The inaugural exhibition is organized by Art Explora, invited...Read more