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Bouchra Khalili (Casablanca, Morocco, 1975) Deeply informed by the legacy of post-independence avant-gardes and the vernacular traditions of her native Morocco, Khalili’s approach develops strategies of storytelling at the intersection of personal and collective experiences. With her interdisciplinary practice, she investigates questions of self-representation, autonomous agency, and forms of resistance of communities rendered invisible by the nation-state model.

Khalili’s work has been subject to many international solo exhibitions, including at Luma Foundation, Arles (2023); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2019); Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2019); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2018); Secession, Vienna (2018); CAAC, Sevilla (2017); MoMA, New York (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015).

An award-winning artist, Khalili received the Grand Prize of 15th Sharjah Biennale in 2023. In 2022. She is currently one of the finalist artists of the Marcel Duchamp Award 2023.

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Abdelkader Benchamma (Mazamet, France, 1975), a graduate of the Fine Arts of Montpellier and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2003, Abdelkader Benchamma works between Paris and Montpellier. Winner of the Drawing Now Prize in 2015, he was invited the same year by the Drawing Center in New York to inaugurate their wall drawing program.

In recent years, he has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Collection Lambert in Avignon in 2022, MRAC Sérignan in 2020, Centquatre and Collège des Bernardins in Paris in 2018, Blue Project Foundation in Barcelona in 2016, and FRAC Auvergne in 2015.

He has participated in various group exhibitions at MO.CO, Montpellier Contemporain; the POLA Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan; Eldorado Lille 3000 in 2019; Boghossian Foundation in Brussels in 2018; Sharjah Biennial in 2017; 54th Venice Biennale in 2011; MATHAF, Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, in 2010. In 2023, his work is the subject of solo exhibitions at the Fondation François Schneider (Watwiller) and the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada. In 2024, at Het Noordbrabants Museum (HNBM) in the Netherlands.

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