Clichés contemporains
Clichés Contemporains is a duo made up of Anas Guermouj and Oumaima El Gamraoui. Born out of a love of art, Clichés Contemporains brings together two different artistic visions, united by a desire to explore and experiment.
Anas Guermouj, born in 1999, is a visual artist who graduated from the Institut of Fine Arts in Tetouan. His artistic approach favors clarity, and he strives to create art that is accessible to all. Taking the opposite approach to academicism, he focuses on aspects of everyday Moroccan life, highlighting the artistic expressions present in our ordinary lives.
Oumaima El Gamraoui is an artist with a passion for storytelling in its many forms. Her artistic career has been shaped by a deep fascination with storytelling and the art of visual narration. Having trained in comics at the National Institute of Fine Arts, she explores the rich world of storytelling through visual mediums ranging from traditional to more contemporary, such as collage, paper-cutting and digital art.
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Cutting and sewing on Moroccan carpet. 3 x 2m
The universe of childhood being the foundation of the Clichés Contemporain duo's artistic exploration, this work materializes the imaginary world of the child by raising a fascinating question: "how do children imagine their intimate spaces?"Through the work, the artist duo creates a bridge between the imaginary and the real world to give life to a work that embodies both the rebellion and innocence of the child.The child's imaginary games are materialized through a circuit cut out of the highly symbolic Moroccan carpet, followed by a series of drawings that skilfully weave the tale of childhood reveries. A series in which every detail is a reminder of the unexplored territories children travel through on their journey to self-discovery.
