Safaa (or Safâa) Erruas, born in 1976 in
Tétouan, is a Moroccan artist.
Biography
Safaa Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan,
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
. After a year of higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tétouan, she changed her course of studies and opted for artistic training. She graduated from the in 1998.
Her work, abstract and minimalist, is most often dominated by a single color, white, which symbolizes for her, immateriality, silence, fragility in drawings that also include sutures, cuts and seams, like unhealed wounds. She also includes pointed or sharp elements, such as needles, razor blades, knives, and thread.
Career
Erruas lives and works in Tétouan,
and exhibits in Morocco, and since 1998, internationally.
When she had finished her artistic studies and obtained her diploma, she participated in "Morocco time," an exhibition organized by Jean-Louis Froment, founder of the
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, formerly the Centre d'arts plastiques contemporains (CAPC), is a museum of modern art established in 1973 in Bordeaux, France.
Building
The museum is housed in the ''Entrepôt Lainé'', a former warehou ...
. She then lived as an artist in residence for six months at the
Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
In 2002, she participated in the fifth
Dakar Biennale
The Dakar Biennale, or Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Dakar, Senegal. Dak'Art's focus has been on Contemporary African Art since 1996.
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, and again in the seventh Dakar Biennale (2006), when she was one of the artists to win an award. In 2009, she was also selected as one of five significant female artists of the new generation of female artists in the Muslim world for a New York exhibition organized by
MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts).
In 2016, her work was exhibited in Paris as part of the Contemporary Art and Design Fair focused on Africa, ''Also Known As Africa'' (AKAA), at the
Carreau du Temple, then again in 2018 at the same fair. She also exhibited in 2017 in London in an annual fair devoted to contemporary art from the African continent.
Erruas's works are held in collections such as the Moroccan Royal Palace, the Société Générale (Morocco), the Caisse de dépôt et de gestion (Morocco), the ONA Foundation in Morocco, the Jean Paul Blachère Foundation in
Apt, and the Center for contemporary art in Lagos, Nigeria. From February 24 to May 1, 2022, she participated in the exhibition, "African Voices," with
Mounir Fatmi
;
Mounir Fatmi (born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco) is an artist of Moroccan heritage. Born in the city of Tangiers, he spent a majority of his time the neighborhood of Casabarata. This neighborhood was known as one of the poorest in the city. He wo ...
,
Maimouna Gerresi, and Kyle Weeks, in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
.
References
External links
Artist's websiteSafaa Erruas on ArtsySafaa Erruas on LeCubeSafaa Erruas on Officine dell'Imagine
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Living people
1976 births
People from Tétouan
Moroccan women artists
21st-century Moroccan painters
Moroccan contemporary artists