Latifa Echakhch


Latifa Echakhch 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.

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. In 2008 she was invited to exhibit her work at Tate Modern in London. In 2011 she participated to the Venice Biennale. She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013., director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, 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, GET OUT.

Exhibitions

Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland.

Monographs