Farid Belkahia

Figure incontournable de l’âge postcolonial et protagoniste de l’école de Casablanca, l’artiste marocain Farid Belkahia (1934-2014) forge son propre langage en puisant aux sources des traditions artisanales ancestrales, loin de la tabula rasa prônée par les avant-gardes occidentales. Ayant abandonné la peinture au profit du cuivre puis de la peau, il est l’auteur d’une oeuvre sans pareille, dans laquelle se confondent formes du désir et désir des formes. A central figure of the Casablanca School and a crucial actor in the development of post-colonial culture, the Moroccan artist Farid Belkahia (1934–2014) forged a language of his own in drawing on the age-old craft traditions of his country, rejecting the tabula rasa of Western avant-gardes. Giving up painting to work in copper and then leather, he created a body of work unlike any other, in which forms of desire and desire for forms become one.