® Leila Alaoui. Self-portrait
After its presentation for the first time in Spain in June 2019 at Casa Árabe Madrid and as part of the 22nd edition of the PhotoEspaña Festival, this exhibition is now coming to the Fundación Tres Culturas, which is paying tribute to the career and commitment of the photographer and video artist Leila Alaoui.
The exhibition The Moroccans reflects a very personal journey of the young artist Leila Alaoui (1982-2016), who tragically died as a result of injuries sustained after the attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 15 January 2016, while working on a report on the status of women, commissioned by Amnesty International.
This exhibition pays tribute to her career as an artist, but also as a committed person. The thirty portraits that make up this exhibition come from rural environments scattered throughout Morocco, which, in Leila's own words, are based on "the filter of her intimate position as a Moroccan with the aim of revealing the subjectivity of the people portrayed".
Leila Alaoui made the series The Moroccans between 2010 and 2014. In it, she did not depict typical scenes of Moroccan life, but painted portraits in the strictest and most classical sense of the term. Underlying Leila's work is the idea of Richard Avedon, one of the greatest portraitists of the 20th century, who argued that "a portrait is the image of someone who knows he is being photographed". Nothing in Leila Alaoui's images seems stolen. It is impossible to remain unmoved by the strong pictorial dimension of her works.
Opening on Thursday 7 November at 7.30 p.m.
Free admission with prior reservation.
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The exhibition will be closed from 13 to 20 November for organisational reasons.