Safaa Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan.
A graduate of the Institut national des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan in 1998, Safaa Erruas has developed over the past two decades a minimalist body of work at the intersection of drawing, installation and sculpture.
Her work is characterised by the recurring use of white, a colour she associates with absence, silence, fragility and immateriality. Working with materials such as needles, pins, razor blades, thread, gauze and cotton, she constructs works of great formal precision, in which the delicacy of surfaces is in constant tension with the latent violence of the materials used.
Between wound, repair and disappearance, Safaa Erruas has developed a visual language based on economy of means, the repetition of gesture and the presence of the void. Her installations and works on paper evoke an absent, fragile or obstructed body, without ever resorting to figurative representation.
Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the Dakar Biennale, the Havana Biennial, MoCADA – Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (New York), and the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), as part of the exhibition Moroccan Trilogy 1950–2020.
Her works are held in several public and private collections, including the Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère (France), the Musée des Abattoirs (France), the Fondation H (Madagascar), the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (Nigeria), the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Morocco), Bank Al-Maghrib (Morocco), Saham Bank (Morocco) and the Fondation ONA (Morocco).
Safaa Erruas lives and works in Tétouan.