In this exhibition, Ikram Kabbaj has chosen to present works with unprecedented invoices, testifying to the undeniable evolution of her plastic path. As Lebanese author and university lecturer Charbel Dagher explains in the exhibition catalog: “Ikram Kabbaj doesn't carve shapes, but creates them from start to finish. Entirely new forms that strike the eye with their singularity. They are the work of the stone and the stubbornness of the tool, of a conception constantly in action.”
Ikram Kabbaj was born in Casablanca in 1960. A disciple of the artists of the Ecole de Casablanca, where she trained before joining the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she occupies a special position in the Moroccan plastic arts landscape. Both a sculptor and a campaigner for the integration of sculpture into public spaces in Morocco, Ikram Kabbaj's work is part of an ongoing reflection on the relationship between sculpture and architecture and space in general.
