Fatima Mazmouz : Sexe et sorcellerie

Following on from her project DES MONTS ET MÈRES VEILLENT, Fatima Mazmouz continues her reflection on magical thinking, the environment, naturalism, women and their empowerment, with a focus on the deconstruction of female stereotypes. In this exhibition, the artist explores the question of intergenerational transmission in the female vernacular, listing several forms of ritual in which sexuality plays an important role. The world of magic thus becomes a weapon of resistance and resilience, and sexuality a subject to give voice to in order to dialogue with the notion of sacredness. 

Curator: Patrice Loubon 

The artist: 

Born in 1974, Fatima Mazmouz is an international fine art photographer and conceptual artist who lives and works between Casablanca and Paris. 

With exhibitions and performances photographed in many countries, she has turned her body into a powerful subject and medium for artistic reflection. Through her performances, photographs, drawings and videos, she explores the multiple dimensions of images. In a “trance action” between anthropological research and narrative, intimate and domestic fiction, her body becomes the perfect receptacle for past and future memory archives. 

Fatima Mazmouz has exhibited at numerous events and institutions, including : Rencontres africaines de la photographie de Bamako (2005), Rencontres d’Arles (2006), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2014), Biennale de Dakar (2016), Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno (Las Palmas, 2017), Grandes Halles de la Villette (Paris, 2017), Paris Photo (2018), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2019), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, 2021), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castillo (Valencia, 2022).