Latifa Echakhch

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

Early life and education

Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three. 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.

Career

Echakhch began her career in 2002. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011. She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. 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." 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.

Exhibitions

• 2007: Le Magasin, Grenoble
• 2008: Tate Modern, London
• 2009: Fridericianum, Kassel
• 2009: Latifa Echakhch - Partitures, Bielefelder Kunstverein (de), Bielefeld.
• 2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, New York
• 2010: Le Rappel des oiseaux, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (fr); then in the Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo (it) (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy.
• 2012: Latifa Echakhch - The Birds. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
• 2013: Latifa Echakhch - Laps, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
• 2013: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• 2015: Latifa Echakhch - Screen Shot, Zurich Art Prize (de) 2015, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich.

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• "54th Venice Biennial, 2011". Universes in Universe. Retrieved June 1, 2016. 
• ^ Blouin (10 January 2013). "Latifa Echakhch Tears Down the Circus at the Kunsthaus Zurich". ArtInfo. Retrieved 31 May 2016. 
• "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. 
• 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. 

Private life

Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland. As of December 2015 she lives with Valentin Carron (fr), also an artist; they have one child.

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
• Thierry Raspail (fr), Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1