Faouzi Laatiris
Faouzi Laatiris, is an artist who lives and works in Tétouan and Martil, in Morocco.Biography
A graduate of the Institut National des beaux-arts in 1983 and the École des beaux-arts in Bourges in 1989, he became a professor at the Tétouan INBA, where he founded the workshop Volume et installation in 1993 – a key period where his artistic production became inseparable from his educational commitment.
He is honored to have contributed to training several artists of the Tétouan generation: Safâa Erruas, Batoul S'Himi, Younès Rahmoun, Mohssin Harraki and Mustapha Akrim. His collaboration with Jean-Louis Froment at the collective exhibition L'Objet désorienté au Maroc, at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1999, is recognized as a milestone in the history of contemporary trans-Mediterranean art.
At the crossroads between sculpture, installation, performance and public space, Faouzi Laatiris develops an aesthetic of hybridization, echoing the urban building site and southern economies in globalization since the 1990s. His works want to go to the very edge of cultural schizophrenia,
defying visual bombs between their form and function, between systems of more or less industrial production, système D and the poetics of ruin.
Faouzi Laatiris has been shown, among other venues, at the Biennale de Dakar in 2002, at doual'art in 2006, at the gallery Fatma Jellal in Casablanca in 2009, at the Istanbul Biennale in 2011, at the Marrakech Biennale and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 2012, at the Arab World Institute in Paris and at the MuCEM in Marseille in 2014.
