MOROCCO
DEBORAH BENZAQUEN
PRESENTATION
Having fun with the codes of documentaries, fashion reporting and even melancholic tales, the artist delivers work at the crossroads of genres, brilliantly mixing reality and fiction.
It was in New York, her first playground, that she starts on a self-taught, in frantic "Street Photography".
Quickly, her work is noticed and her first silver film series in black and white, exposed. Five years later, Déborah returned to Morocco. Her work is more thoughtful and like on a set, she now carefully works on her stagings. But she also appreciates improvisation and gives free rein to her models. Once the decor is set, she lets them express themselves and captures the moment and its magic with an amazed look.
As her art goes by, the artist gives us a message of tolerance and strong values highlighted by an unexpected gentleness and a certain poetry. Déborah Benzaquen is now considered as one of the best Moroccan photographers.
ARTWORKS
SOLO & GROUP SHOW
SELECTION
2018
Berberliner, off 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech
Collective exhibition, In an instant, Marruecos. Transatlántica, 10 años, Casa Àrabe, PHotoESPAÑA
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2017
Portrait series, 100 Femmes, Collective exhibition, Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat
Eternal Youth, collective exhibition, Delacroix gallery of the French Institute, Tangier
Collective exhibition, Fashion Imagery, Dasthe Art Space & Agency, Casablanca
Intimes-Errances, collective exhibition, The Art Company gallery, Casablanca
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2016
Tolerance Art, Collective exhibition, Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat
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2015
Collective exhibition `` Combined routes '', Espace Claire Garnier, Lycée Lyautey, Casablanca
Billboards Festival, Casablanca
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2014
The 5th Marrakech Biennale, Entre-je. Female stories of the body, gallery 127, Marrakech
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2013
SNIFF OUT Festival, Wada Garou gallery, Osaka
Four Seasons, Solo exhibition, Marrakech
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2012
“La Désenchantée” solo exhibition, Wada Garou gallery, Tokyo
Fotofever, galerie 127, Brussels
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2011
Marrakech Art Fair Exhibition, galerie 127, Marrakech
Fotofever, gallery 127, Paris
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2009
Collective exhibition, with Lamia Naji and Florence Chevalier, Villa des Arts, Casablanca
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2008
Collective exhibition, "Contemporary moroccan roots", Amine Bendriouich
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2002
"Casablanca stories" solo exhibition, Bombora gallery, New York
PRESS
Dasthe Art Space & Agency: Meet our featured artist Deborah Benzaquen