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Hammer projects latifa echakhch
Latifa Echakhch (Arabic: لطيفة الشخش; born El Khnansa, Morocco, 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
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- Hammer projects latifa echakhch
- Conversation between latifa echakhch and alessandro rabottini eng
- Early life and education
- Career
- Exhibitions
- Private life
- Monographs
- References
Conversation between latifa echakhch and alessandro rabottini eng
Early life and education
Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three. She attended the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and graduated from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts.
Career
Echakhch began her career in 2002. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011. She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. Alfred Pacquement, director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism." In December 2015 she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the Haute École d'art et de design Genève, GET OUT.
Exhibitions
Private life
Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland. As of December 2015 she lives with Valentin Carron, also an artist; they have one child.