Painter
Safaa Kotbi
Born in Casablanca in 1995, she graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan in 2021 and began her artistic career in 2007 as an amateur.
Over the past three years, she has been developing her artistic research, focusing on the link between surface and depth, and asking questions about contemporary art.
Her subjects include questions about Moroccan culture and industry: Zelij, Tazouwakt, Weaving… as well as the thematic of memory linked to childhood and the archive, events that take place in the context of surprise, and their representation in art. She expresses her reflections in a variety of mediums: drawing, installation, performance, photography, and kinetic art.
" Zamakan "
Hanging installation composed of plaster casts soaked in orange blossom water and red wool threads. 100 x 300cm
The installation explores the question of identity through the prism of the archive. Among the many objects left behind by her ancestors, the artist chose the "mrecha", a traditional accessory present in all ceremonies, from birth to death. The object thus goes beyond the limits of palpable matter to reveal the infinite symbolic universe that links it to its user. The work invites us to journey into the memory of rites and traditions along steep paths where the objects that accompany our lives are much more than they let on. It's a sensory journey that engages both visual and olfactory memory.
