Ghizlane Sahli | Artist - African Arty Gallery

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30 rue Zahrat Aloualoua
20 000 Casablanca
Morocco

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday
11am-7pm
Saturday
11am-5pm

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+212 687 222 614

Born in Meknes, Morocco. Lives and works in Marrakech, Morocco.

After architecture studies in Paris, Ghizlane returned to Morocco and settled in Marrakesh.

Enthused by embroideries and tissues, she decided to open a workshop working with textiles, assisted by local artisans.

Ghizlane florished in this world of tissue during 7 years, and hence developed a certain vision of it. She received the Prize for Creation at the « Trophée Couleurs » in 2009.

In 2012, following the creation of a dress made from waste (trash bags, jerricans, plastic bottles), produced for the Marrakech Mag (a local cultural magazine), Ghizlane decided to close her embroidery workshop and focus on pure artistic creation.

With her sister and two photographer friends, she formed the Zbel Manifesto collective, which works essentially with waste. The collective appeared at the Marrakesh Biennale in 2014, presenting an installation, « Pimp My Garbage ». They were thereafter invited to participate in the inaugural exposition of the Mohamed VI Museum in Rabat.

Today Ghizlane continues her work with the help of local artisan women. Together they seek new ways of working with silk thread. She has developed « the Alveoles », three-dimensional embroidery, made from the tops of used bottles, covered with silk thread.

She imagines poetic, dream-like worlds where she can experiment and create bridges between her three passions, space and volume, stemming from her architecture studies, silk thread, from her involvement with embroidery, and the environment, from her personal interrogations regarding durable development and the future of the planet.

She enjoys transforming material, subliming it and giving it meaning.

Her work is part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London and the collection of the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech.

See the works

Exhibitions & Awards

Solo show
2023
“Et la Sève fut…(28×4)” Gallery Christophe Person, Paris,
France
28xX… Porto Novo. La grande place. Porto Novo, Benin
28xX… Ouagadougou. Lwili Résidence, Ouagadougou
2020
La Mer, Origine du Monde… David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2019
Histoires de tripes. Sakhile&Me Gallery. Frankfurt, Germany
Recent works. Primae Noctis Art Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland
Histoires de Tripes- Chapter II. Sulger Buel Gallery, London
2018
Histoires de Tripes. David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2017
Genesis. Institut français. Rabat, Morocco
2016
Incubation. Riad Denise Mason, Institut français. Marrakech, Morocco

Collective show
2023

And Beyond…, African Arty Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco

Les Fleurs du Mal, Guerlain Foundation, Paris, France
Memoria. Mohamed VI Museum, Rabat, Morocco

Spirit of Exstasy challenge. Rolls Royce, Shanghai, China
(UN)Common Threads. Alserkal Avenue. Dubai
Performing Bodies. Lakum Art Space, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(UN)Common Threads. Alserkal Avenue. Dubai
Performing Bodies. Lakum Art Space, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2022
Rolls Royce Spirit of Exstazy challenge opening show.
Cromwell Place, London (UK)
MétamorFose. Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris,France
L’Art est un jeu Sérieux. MACAAL museum, Marrakech, Morocco
Breaking Boudaries. Firetti contemporary Gallery, Dubai (UAE)
2021
Praxis of change. Firetti contemporary gallery, Dubai, (UAE)
La Clairiére d’Eza Boto. Musée de l’Orangerie, Rouen, France
Là où il y a la mer…CAC Passerelle, Brest, France
Group Show, David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2020

The Inner Garden. Loft Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Maison de force. Aeden gallery, Strasbourg, France
When the globe is home. Gallerie delle Prigione.
Fondation Benetton, Treviso, Italy
The future is female. Sulger Buel Gallery. London (UK)
Accrochage. Sakhile&Me Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2019
Africa now. MO.CA Museum, Brescia, Italy

Fairs & Biennials

2020

Cologne art Fair. Cologne (Allemagne)
1.54 Contemporary African Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. Marrakech (Maroc)
2019

1.54 Contemporary African Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. London (UK)
Cologne art Fair. Cologne (Allemagne)
MIART. Primo Marella Gallery. Milan (Italie)
Paper positions. Frankfort (Allemagne)
1.54 Contemporary Art Fair, Primo Marella Gallery. Marrakech (Maroc)
Artissima Fair. Primo Marella Gallery.Turin (Italie)
Biso Biennale. Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
1.54 Contemporary Art Fair, Primo Marella Gallery. Marrakech (Maroc)
2018

Artissima Fair. Primo Marella Gallery.Turin (Italie)
1.54 Contemporary African Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. London (UK)
1.54 Contemporary African Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. Marrakech (Maroc)
2016

« THE CAVE ». Kech’collective. Biennale de Marrakech (Maroc)

« DE LA TERRE AU CIEL ». Zbel Manifesto. L’blassa. Biennale de Marrakech (Maroc)
2014

« PIMP MY GARBAGE ». Zbel Manifesto. L’blassa. Biennale de Marrakech (Maroc)