Hanane El Farissi
حنان الفارسي
- Nationality
- Moroccan
- Based
- Rabat, Morocco and Brussels, Belgium
- Born
- 1990, Skhirat, Morocco
- Practice
- Drawing, installation, performance and sculpture
Biography
Hanane El Farissi is a Moroccan artist, born in Skhirat in 1990, who lives between Rabat and Brussels. Her practice spans drawing, installation, performance, sculpture and video. Image, body and space are her starting points. She draws in particular on the image of her own body, and on objects.
Dakira (2014) uses hair on paper and mixed media on photography. It was presented at Le Cube in Rabat, as was the performance Break the Mirror that year. Embrassement d'un Embrasement (2020), shown at HISK, is an interactive in situ installation with video and drawings in paint and ink. In 2019 she performed Grace & Lace at S.M.A.K., Ghent. A 2021 text by Phillip Van den Bossche discusses her drawings of facades and ruins. The Dbagh Project (2024 to 2026) studies the Marrakech tanneries with the archaeologist Thomas Reitmaier.
El Farissi graduated from INBA in Tétouan in 2013 and took a master's in contemporary sculpture at La Cambre, Brussels, in 2017. She completed the HISK postgraduate programme in Ghent in 2020. In 2021 she held solo exhibitions at Moussem and Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery in Brussels. That year she won the Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize at MiArt. IKOB in Eupen, M HKA in Antwerp, Mu.ZEE in Ostend and S.M.A.K. in Ghent hold her work.
CV
Education
- 2020Postgraduate programme, HISK, Ghent
- 2017Master, Contemporary Sculpture, La Cambre (ENSAV), Brussels
- 2013Graduate, Institut national des beaux-arts (INBA), Tétouan
Solo exhibitions
- 2021In The Way Of Transmuting, Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Brussels
- 2021Destroy And Time To Start Over, Moussem, Brussels
- 2015Reconstruction Of A Memory, Le Cube, Independent Art Room, Rabat
- 2014Hanane El Farissi, Le Cube, Independent Art Room, Rabat
Group exhibitions and biennials
- 2026État(s) de passage, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier
- 2026État(s) de passage, Villa des Arts, Rabat
- 2024Transnational Stories, Moussem Belgica, Galerie d'art contemporain Mohamed Drissi, Tangier, and Oujda
- 20216 Degrees, Waldburger Wouters Gallery and Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk
- 2021New Saints, Waldburger Wouters Gallery, Brussels
- 2020In A Lang Blink Of An Eye, curated by Daniella Geo, HISK
- 2019HISK at Tick Tack, Tick Tack art space, Antwerp
- 2018De liens et d'exil, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, with Moussem Nomadic Art Center, Brussels
- 2018Noss Noss, curated by Katrin Stroebel, Le 18, with Goethe-Institut, Marrakech
- 2017Soli Sol Soli, curated by Nancy Casielles, La Maison des Arts, Schaerbeek, Brussels
- 2016Como Escapar De Um Armário?, SKAD, Skrei Arts Division, Porto
- 2015Passages, Parages, Visages, Paysages, curated by Farid Zahi, Museum Bank Al-Maghrib, Rabat
- 2014100 ans de création, Musée Mohammed VI d'art moderne et contemporain, Rabat
- 2013Castel de Drena, Trento
Awards and grants
- 2021Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for contemporary art and young artists, MiArt, with MLF Galerie, Milan
Public collections
- IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen
- M HKA, Antwerp
- Mu.ZEE, Ostend
- S.M.A.K., Ghent
Exhibitions on Artmena
Documents
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