This is the last exhibition of 2023 at the gallery.
Sara Ouhaddou was born in 1986 and lives and works between France and Morocco. She addresses the various challenges facing artisan communities and explores how art can be used as an instrument for economic, social and cultural change. The Arabic language is an important theme in her work. She dissects Arabic letters into abstract symbols, transforming them into a language in their own right.
Her work has been exhibited at the Mucem (Marseille), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Z33 (Hasselt), the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo, the Institut des Cultures d'Islam, the Bauhaus in Dessau and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, among others.
"The complexity of the construction of symbols by our societies is at the heart of my research. The star is one of the symbols most used by mankind since prehistoric times. My study of this symbol began in Morocco, then spread to all the countries of the Arab world, and finally led me to the United States. The Star is as much a part of the construction of contemporary myths as it is of ancient histories. From its symbolism to its scientific reality, it acts in the same way in the United States as it does in the Arab world."