Rita Alaoui is a Franco-Moroccan artist, born in Rabat in 1972, who lives and works in Paris. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, where she lived until the late 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fascinated by the power of nature, the healing virtues of plants, and deeply concerned about a disappearing world, she focuses her approach on representing a dreamlike, sacred, and restorative nature. Although strongly influenced by the wild landscapes and distinctive light of Morocco that marked her childhood, her work addresses universal themes. She blends various references, including the art of gardening, to which she imparts an animistic dimension, evoking a sense of romanticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Initially a painter, Rita Alaoui explores a variety of creative mediums, ranging from painting and drawing to photography, installation, video performance, and the creation of artist books. Her process, reminiscent of botany or archaeology, centers on collecting, accumulating, and observing objects she finds in nature. She meticulously organizes these objects in her studio, which she regards as a temple, bestowing upon them an unsuspected sense of sacredness or spirituality. Each small fragment\u2014whether bone, stone, or plant\u2014becomes a rich subject for the artist, who pays particular attention to their sometimes unusual shapes and textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The question driving Rita Alaoui\u2019s research is her role as an artist in relation to the silent matter surrounding us. She seeks to reproduce the remnants of nature left by the passage of time, rethink our connection to the wild world, reinterpret the familiar, and imagine connections to the extraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her paintings delve into the details of natural and seemingly mundane objects that she collects, sometimes reinterpreting them by staging them in pictorial works that recompose spaces and relationships between these objects. For instance, the view of her garden from her studio inspires her to create spaces where the wild world and domesticated nature confront each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deeply interested in the intimate and free relationship between writing and visual arts, and passionate about book objects, Rita Alaoui also focuses her research on the creation of artist books. She combines a plastic and aesthetic approach to the object with a form of simple, meditative writing. Each book becomes a unique work of art in its own right, and in a sense, sacred. Rita Alaoui’s work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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