Rahma Lhoussig at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon

African Arty is delighted to announce that the artist Rahma Lhoussig is currently exhibiting at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, alongside the great founding masters of Moroccan modern and contemporary art such as Gharbaoui, Cherkaoui and representatives of the Casablanca School, among others.

From June 26 to September 24, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, is hosting an exhibition devoted to the post-Independence Moroccan art scene.

Co-curated by teams from the Mohammed VI Museum, "Bleu et autres couleurs. Un voyage dans l'histoire de l'art du Maroc" (Blue and other colours. A journey through the history of Moroccan art) features some sixty works, providing a rapid panorama from the pioneers of abstraction to the very latest generation of artists such as Ghizlane Agzenaï and Rahma Lhoussig. (From Diptyk Magazine)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rahma Lhoussig graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan.

Rahma Lhoussig's works feature a protagonist who seems to float against flat pastel grounds, anchored by islands of detail: balloons, discarded objects, stuffed bears and live birds. She exists in a state of imagination that evokes adolescent reverie as well as a sort of in camera Wonderland, where one might speak to an invisible friend, or share a bit of cake with a stork. Areas of the canvas remain undefined, as realism gives way to space—marked here and there with scribbled musings that reveal Lhoussig's fascinating process. She invites the viewer to enter this territory of consciousness/unconsciousness, and the creative mind of a young heroine who observes the world without prejudice.

Source: African Arty