Ghizlane Sahli

born in 1973 in Meknes (Morocco)

Ghizlane Sahli explores matter, its texture and its universality. She collects waste (plastic bottles) and embroiders them with silk with the help of artisan women. She imagines these “alveoli”, the chief component of her work, as cells. These cells attach themselves and accumulate on a metallic matrix to form the oeuvre. This very organic work is perceived by the artist as a real gestation. She uses diverse media to express it: drawings, installations and sculpture. Today Ghizlane continues to make works using mainly these materials that coats with silk threads and inserts in three-dimensional structures such as the “alveoli”.

Ghizlane Sahli was born in Meknes in 1973 and grew up in Agadir.

Trained in architecture in Paris, she moved to Marrakesh in 2005, where she lives and works today.

In 2012, after receiving numerous awards, Ghizlane took the decision of committing exclusively to Fine Arts and founded the collective “Zbel Manifesto” which essentially use plastic and recycled material inserted in the practice of embroidery.

After finishing her Architecture studies in Paris, Ghizlane returns to Morocco and devotes herself enthusiastically to the practice of embroidery and sewing, developing this technique with a very special and personal vision.

In 2018 she is shortlisted to join two ambitious group shows in Europe, officially setting her way into the Western scenario: “The Black Sphinx” at Primo Marella Gallery, in Milan and “Or” at MUCEM in Marseille.

Ghizlane Sahli’s works are included in the MACAAL permanent collection (Morocco) and have been widely exhibited at the Marrakesh Biennale in 2014 and 2016 and at the Mohamed VI Museum in Rabat.

Solo exhibitions

2019

Solo Exhibition, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano

2017

Genesis, Institut français, Rabat, Marrakech

2016

Incubation, Riad Denise Masson, IFM, Biennale de Marrakech

2014

Metamorphosis, Dar Bellarj, Marrakech

Group exhibitions

2018

Second Life, Macaal Museum, Marrakech