Majida Khattari was born in 1966 in Erfoud.
Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca and subsequently at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she graduated in 1995, Majida Khattari has developed a practice combining photography, performance, installation, video and film.
Her work examines representations of the female body in Arab and Western societies through forms inspired by fashion, the runway and theatrical staging. Since 1996, she has created performances in which models wear sculptural garments addressing issues surrounding the status of women, religion, secularism and contemporary political contexts.
In her photographic works, Majida Khattari revisits the codes of Orientalist painting by reconstructing compositions inspired by its historical iconography and transposing them into contemporary contexts.
Her works are held in several public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne (France), the Fondation Louis Vuitton (France), the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Canada), the Salsali Private Museum (United Arab Emirates) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki (Greece).
Majida Khattari lives and works in Paris.