Hicham Matini

Born in Tahla, Morocco, in 1987. Hicham Matini graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan in 2014, he is a visual artist who is interested in questions of visual representation related to the challenges geopolitics. His research focuses mainly on the question of the cultural hegemony of images and on the issues that these impose on public debate today. 

His work translates a perspicacious look, both specific and global because according to the artist, our civilization considers the transmission of culture with more ease when it is of the order of distraction. Finally, his committed work aims to propose reading grids in-depth at a time when the “virality" of the image is the only criterion of its veracity. 

Hicham Matini exhibited his work notably at the 5th Marrakech Biennial, at MONA, Museum of New art Armada in Detroit in the United States, at the Festival of Arts and Music in Tulum in Mexico (2019), at the CRUCE contemporary art center in Madrid in Spain (2020), at the Art Center contemporary ELY in Connecticut in the United States (2020). 

He explores through a variety of mediums the notions of borders, urban violence and generational conflicts. With the paint as a "dead image" he questions the relationship between spectators and the media, he draws on the collective imagination to reclaim popular symbols to highlight the tradition/modernity dialectic.