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'''Latifa Echakhch''' (born [[El Khnansa]], Morocco, 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates [[Installation (art)|installations]]. She participated in the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2011 and won the [[Marcel Duchamp Prize]] in 2013.
{{Short description|Moroccan-French visual artist (born 1974)}}
'''Latifa Echakhch''' ({{langx|ar|لطيفة الشخش}}; born 1974) is a Moroccan-[[French people|French]] visual artist. Working in [[Switzerland]], she creates [[Installation (art)|installations]]. She participated in the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2011 and won the [[Marcel Duchamp Prize]] in 2013.


== Early life and education ==
== Biography ==
Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three. She graduated from the [[École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy|National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise]] and the [[École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon|Lyon National School of Fine Arts]].<ref name=huffpo>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/10/26/prix-marcel-duchamp-latifa-echakhch_n_4166150.html |title=Le prix Marcel Duchamp 2013 attribué à Latifa Echakhch |trans-title=The 2013 Marcel Duchamp prize given to Latifa Echakhch |date=26 October 2013 |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] |language=French |accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref> She lives and works in [[Martigny]] in Switzerland.
Latifa Echakhch was born in [[El-Khnansa]], [[Morocco]] in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lunn|first1=Felicity|title=Latifa Echakhch|url=https://frieze.com/article/latifa-echakhch|work=Frieze|date=1 January 2011}}</ref> She attended the [[École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble]] and graduated from the [[École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy|National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise]] and the [[École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon|Lyon National School of Fine Arts]].<ref name=Temps>{{cite news |first=Elisabeth |last=Chardon |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/2015/12/11/latifa-echakhch-resistance-art |title=Latifa Echakhch, la résistance par l'art |trans-title=Latifa Echakhch: Resistance through art |newspaper=[[Le Temps]] |language=fr|date=11 December 2015 |accessdate=31 May 2016 }}</ref><ref name=huffpo>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/10/26/prix-marcel-duchamp-latifa-echakhch_n_4166150.html |title=Le prix Marcel Duchamp 2013 attribué à Latifa Echakhch |trans-title=The 2013 Marcel Duchamp prize given to Latifa Echakhch |date=26 October 2013 |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] |language=fr|accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref>


==Career==
Echakhch participated in the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/intartdata/artists/africa/mar/echakhch_latifa|title=54th Venice Biennial, 2011|author=Universes in Universe|publisher=universes-in-universe.org|accessdate=2016-06-01}}</ref> She was awarded the [[Marcel Duchamp Prize]] in 2013.<ref name=huffpo/> {{Interlanguage link|fr|Alfred Pacquement}}, director of the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]] (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between [[surrealism]] and [[conceptualism]], questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism."<ref>{{cite news| title=Le Marcel-Duchamp remis à Latifa Echakhch | trans-title = The Marcel Duchamp awarded to Latifa Echakhch | newspaper= [[Libération]]| date =27 October 2013 | url = http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2013/10/27/le-marcel-duchamp-remis-a-latifa-echakhch_942743 |accessdate=31 May 2016 |quote=Son œuvre, entre surréalisme et conceptualisme, questionne avec économie et précision l’importance des symboles et traduit la fragilité du modernisme.}}</ref>
Echakhch began her career in 2002.<ref name=Temps/> In 2008, she was invited to exhibit her work at [[Tate Modern]] in [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://flash---art.com/article/latifa-echakhch/|title=Latifa Echakhch &#124;|date=November 16, 2016|website=Flash Art}}</ref> In 2011, she participated to the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/intartdata/artists/africa/mar/echakhch_latifa|title=54th Venice Biennial, 2011|publisher=Universes in Universe|accessdate=June 1, 2016}}</ref><ref name=info>{{cite web |author=Blouin |url=http://blogs.artinfo.com/berlinartbrief/2013/01/10/latifa-echakhch-tears-down-the-circus-at-the-kunsthaus-zurich/ |title=Latifa Echakhch Tears Down the Circus at the Kunsthaus Zurich |website=ArtInfo |date=10 January 2013 |accessdate=31 May 2016 }}</ref> She was awarded the [[Marcel Duchamp Prize]] in 2013.<ref name=Temps/><ref name=huffpo/> {{Interlanguage link multi|Alfred Pacquement|fr}}, director of the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]] (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between [[surrealism]] and [[conceptualism]], questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism."<ref>{{cite news| title=Le Marcel-Duchamp remis à Latifa Echakhch | trans-title = The Marcel Duchamp awarded to Latifa Echakhch | newspaper= [[Libération]]| date =27 October 2013 | url = http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2013/10/27/le-marcel-duchamp-remis-a-latifa-echakhch_942743 |accessdate=31 May 2016 |quote=Son œuvre, entre surréalisme et conceptualisme, questionne avec économie et précision l’importance des symboles et traduit la fragilité du modernisme.}}</ref> In December 2015, she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the {{Interlanguage link multi|Haute École d'art et de design Genève|fr}}, ''GET OUT''.<ref name=Temps/>


== Exhibitions ==
=== Exhibitions ===
[[File:Latifa Echakhch.jpg|thumb|''A chaque stencil une révolution'' in Art Basel 2010, {{Interlanguage link multi|Kleinbasel|de}}]]
*2007: [[Le Magasin]], Grenoble
*2007: [[Le Magasin]], [[Grenoble]]
*2008: [[Tate Modern]], London
*2008: [[Tate Modern]], London
*2009: [[Fridericianum]], Kassel
*2009: [[Fridericianum]], [[Kassel]]
*2009: Latifa Echakhch - ''Partitures'', {{Interlanguage link|de|Bielefelder Kunstverein}}, Bielefeld.
*2009: Latifa Echakhch – ''Partitures'', {{Interlanguage link multi|Bielefelder Kunstverein|de}}, [[Bielefeld]]
*2009: [[Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York]], New York
*2009: [[Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York]], [[New York City|New York]]
*2010: ''Le Rappel des oiseaux'', {{Interlanguage link|fr|FRAC Champagne-Ardenne}}; then in the {{Interlanguage link|it|Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo|Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo)}} (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy.
*2010: ''Le Rappel des oiseaux'', {{Interlanguage link multi|FRAC Champagne-Ardenne|fr}}; then in the {{Interlanguage link multi|Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo|it|3=Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo)}} (GAMeC), [[Bergamo]], Italy
*2012: Latifa Echakhch - ''The Birds''. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
*2012: Latifa Echakhch – ''The Birds''. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. [[Portikus]], Frankfurt
*2013: Latifa Echakhch - ''Laps'', [[Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon]], Lyon<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/art-contemporain/la-poesie-visuelle-de-latifa-echakhch-11639/|title=La poésie visuelle de Latifa Echakhch |trans-title=The visual poetry of Latifa Echakhch |last=Lasnier|first=Jean-François|date=29 March 2013|work=Connaissance des Arts|language=French|accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref>
*2013: Latifa Echakhch – ''Laps'', [[Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon]], [[Lyon]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/art-contemporain/la-poesie-visuelle-de-latifa-echakhch-11639/|title=La poésie visuelle de Latifa Echakhch |trans-title=The visual poetry of Latifa Echakhch |last=Lasnier|first=Jean-François|date=29 March 2013|work=Connaissance des Arts|language=French|accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref>
*2013: [[Hammer Museum]], [[Los Angeles]]<ref name=info/>
*2015: Latifa Echakhch - ''Screen Shot'', {{Interlanguage link|de|Zurich Art Prize}} 2015, [[Haus Konstruktiv]], Zurich.
*2015: Latifa Echakhch – ''Screen Shot'', [[Zurich Art Prize]] 2015, [[Haus Konstruktiv]], [[Zürich]]
*2016: ''Cross Fade'', [[The Power Plant]], [[Toronto]]
*2017: ''Crowd Fade'', [[Istanbul Biennial]], [[Istanbul]]
*2018: ''Falling, Lovely and beautiful'', [[KIOSK]], [[Ghent]]
*2018: ''Le Jardin Mécanique'', [[New National Museum of Monaco]]
*2018: ''Sensory Spaces 14'', [[Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen]], [[Rotterdam]]
*2019: ''Romance'', [[Fondazione Memmo]], [[Rome]]
*2019: ''Freedom and Tree'', Kunsthalle Mainz, [[Mainz]]
*2020: ''The sun and The Set'', [[BPS22]], [[Charleroi]]
*2022: ''The Concert'', Swiss Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia |url=https://www.biennials.ch/home/Biennial.aspx?BiennialId=79 |access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref>

==Private life==
Echakhch lives and works in [[Martigny]] in Switzerland.


== Monographs ==
== Monographs ==
* Kamel Mennour, ''Latifa Echakhch'', texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Latifa Echakhch, Annabelle Gugnon Bernard Marcadé, Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France, JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag / Les Presses real, 2012, ISBN 978-2-914171-46-5
* [[Kamel Mennour]], ''Latifa Echakhch'', texts by [[Jean-Christophe Ammann]], Latifa Echakhch, Annabelle Gugnon, Bernard Marcadé, Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France, JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag / Les Presses real, 2012, {{ISBN|978-2-914171-46-5}}
* [[Thierry Raspail]], ''Latifa Echakhch. Laps'', Lyon, France, [[Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon]], 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Thierry Raspail|fr}}, ''Latifa Echakhch. Laps'', Lyon, France, [[Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon]], 2013, {{ISBN|978-2-90646-187-1}}


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 17:42, 2 November 2024

Latifa Echakhch (Arabic: لطيفة الشخش; born 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Working in Switzerland, she creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.

Early life and education

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Latifa Echakhch was born in El-Khnansa, Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three.[1] She attended the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and graduated from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts.[2][3]

Career

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Echakhch began her career in 2002.[2] In 2008, she was invited to exhibit her work at Tate Modern in London.[4] In 2011, she participated to the Venice Biennale.[5][6] She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.[2][3] Alfred Pacquement [fr], director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism."[7] In December 2015, she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the Haute École d'art et de design Genève [fr], GET OUT.[2]

Exhibitions

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A chaque stencil une révolution in Art Basel 2010, Kleinbasel [de]

Private life

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Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland.

Monographs

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  • Kamel Mennour, Latifa Echakhch, texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Latifa Echakhch, Annabelle Gugnon, Bernard Marcadé, Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France, JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag / Les Presses real, 2012, ISBN 978-2-914171-46-5
  • Thierry Raspail [fr], Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1

References

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  1. ^ Lunn, Felicity (1 January 2011). "Latifa Echakhch". Frieze.
  2. ^ a b c d Chardon, Elisabeth (11 December 2015). "Latifa Echakhch, la résistance par l'art" [Latifa Echakhch: Resistance through art]. Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Le prix Marcel Duchamp 2013 attribué à Latifa Echakhch" [The 2013 Marcel Duchamp prize given to Latifa Echakhch]. The Huffington Post (in French). AFP. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Latifa Echakhch |". Flash Art. November 16, 2016.
  5. ^ "54th Venice Biennial, 2011". Universes in Universe. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Blouin (10 January 2013). "Latifa Echakhch Tears Down the Circus at the Kunsthaus Zurich". ArtInfo. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Le Marcel-Duchamp remis à Latifa Echakhch" [The Marcel Duchamp awarded to Latifa Echakhch]. Libération. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016. Son œuvre, entre surréalisme et conceptualisme, questionne avec économie et précision l'importance des symboles et traduit la fragilité du modernisme.
  8. ^ Lasnier, Jean-François (29 March 2013). "La poésie visuelle de Latifa Echakhch" [The visual poetry of Latifa Echakhch]. Connaissance des Arts (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  9. ^ "Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia". Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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