When we observe the body of work realized to date by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, three constant principles emerge, among others: the first concerns his relationship to the body, and the second is his relationship to space. We can even say that quite often the two are intertwined. His rapport to the body is obviously not removed from his formative training as a dancer, just as the one with space is linked to his work as a “sculptor.” This term is probably the most adequate to describe his artistic approach, even including his photography— and here we touch on the third point: the question of memory—which is never absent.
Body, space and memory form a kind of trilogy, and there are at least two of these components present in each performance, sculpture or image produced by the artist. All contribute, each in their own way, to a convoluted evocation of cultural references, religious beliefs or social attributes. For him, the concern is to revisit all of them from the perspective of critical practices and the various processes that characterize contemporary art. One function of this art is to perpetually question certain taboos and beliefs of our societies, whether they be moral, religious, philosophical, political, social, cultural or aesthetic.
One could almost claim that the ambiguity of the results that Mehdi-Georges Lahlou leads us to is inversely proportional to the means he uses, means which are all relatively traditional for an artist of the 21st century at the crossroads of cultures, genres, styles and techniques. From time immemorial, in fact, artists have also practiced self-portraiture and sculpture; stained glass has lived through the centuries; and photography, ever since its origin in 1839, has constantly been used by artists, whether they are painters or not.
So from where does Mehdi-Georges Lahlou get his aptitude for producing ambiguous works from elements that are not themselves ambiguous? One cannot speak of Surrealism in his approach, but rather of an ability to dissociate all kinds of referents and sources in order to amalgamate new forms of thought. We see, therefore, the artist more as an alchemist affecting the images, materials, and media in order to establish new perceptions of them, namely the transformation of their identity, by producing objects or figures that are not categorisable due to their multireferentiality.
From this point of view, the busts with duplicate faces and the cubic Kaaba-shaped structures refer to different aspects of art history (self-portraiture, minimalism) whose codes of representation are then hijacked and redirected. It is also concerned with combining the works, either by multiplying them (72 Vierges – 2012), or by uniting them. The artist thus creates new works from older ones, placing them in a balance that is as improbable as it is evocative (Équilibre a la Kaaba – 2013), or even playing with the effects of inclusion, as in Home sweet home (2009-2010), a minimalist structure of the Kaaba with one side turned into a video screen. The whole could be summed up by the title of another skillful installation piece, paradoxically called Construction cubique, ou de la pensée confuse (2011).
It is by catapulting between these different forms and figures, while remaining inconspicuous—be it only initially—, that the artist manages to develop a particular universe. It is his own, but everyone has the right to appropriate it for him or her-self, insofar as its components are not foreign to us. On the contrary, they could almost seem familiar. The viewer has only to recompose the puzzle while attempting to unravel the sprawling thoughts of the artist.
Born in 1983 in Les Sables d’Olonne (FR)
Lives and works in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Casablanca
EDUCATION
2014 – Les Réalisateurs – Art and Business, Post-graduate, Nantes (France)
2010 – PhD in Fine Arts, St. Joost Academy, Breda (Netherlands)
2007 – DNSEP, Ecole Régionale de Nantes Métropole, Nantes (France)
Master multimedia, cultural mediation and administration of heritage,
Angers University (France)
2005 – DNAP, honors, Ecole Régionale de Nantes Métropole, Nantes (France)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
72 (Virgins) in Motion and Aria, Museo de Arte Colonial, La Havana (Cuba)
Under the Sand, the Sun, Galerie Transit, Mechelen (Belgium)
75 (Installation/Performance), MNAC – Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest (Romania)
2017
Behind the Garden, Botanique Museum, Brussels (Belgium) Curated by Simon Njami
Of the Confused Memory, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (France)
2016
And Even If Nothing Takes Root in this Oasis, Galerie Transit, Mechelen (Belgium)
AQAF, Galerie Verbeeck – Van Dyck het Antwerp (Belgium)
Dans mes rêves, mes cendres, TheArtSpace, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2015
I Did Not Have To Cross the Sea, Merton D, Simpson Gallery, New York (USA)
Even the Dust Remains, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Belgium)
Quelqu’un m’a dit que le Merveilleux était révolu…, Galerie Dix9, Paris (France)
C’est plus charmant en équilibre…, Lieux Communs, Namur (Belgium)
Rendez-vous sur la Corniche, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, HAU2, Festival Return to sender, Berlin (Germany) Curated by Ricardo Carmona
Sous les voiles même, Institut Français of Casablanca, Casablanca (Morocco)
2014
Un bon moment au bord des Rotondes, Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris (France)
Paradis Incertain, Centrale Box – CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels (Belgium) Curated by Abdelkader Damani
Inch’Allah, Catherine Ahnell Gallery, New York (USA)
2013
Paradis incertain, Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium)
72 (virgins) in the wind, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee (USA)
J’ai habité cette rue…, Paradise, Nantes (France)
Les derniers talons d’Allah, Paradise, Nantes (France)
Defibrillator, performance art gallery, Chicago (USA)
2012
Walking to Lahloutopia, Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux within the framework of DABA Maroc 2012/2013, Brussels (Belgium)
Quelqu’un m’a dit que le Merveilleux était révolu…, Galerie Dix9, Paris (France)
C’est plus charmant en équilibre…, Lieux Communs, Namur (Belgium)
2011
Monographies d’artistes Art 10+1, Wolubilis Cultural Center, La Médiatine, Brussels (Belgium)
Construction cubique, ou de la pensée confuse, Croxhapox, Ghent (Belgium)
Les Talons d’Allah, IV, EspacePointCA Gallery, Alma, Québec (Canada)
2010
Les Talons d’Allah, Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium)
Les Talons d’Allah, Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris (France)
C’est charmant, Ya Gallery, Kiev (Ukraine)
Les Talons d’Allah, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin (Germany)
2009
Cocktail II, M’atuvu Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Dar Koom, take a seat!, M’atuvu Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Quelqu’un m’a dit que le Merveilleux était révolu… Leo XIII studio, Tilburg (Netherlands)
Cocktail, T.A.G., Brussels (Belgium)
PUBLIC COLLECTION
FRAC Midi Pyrénées (Toulouse, France)
FRAC Haute Normandie (Rouen, France)
FRAC Pays de la Loire (Nantes, France)
FAIRS
2019
ART BRUSSELS, TRANSIT GALLERY, BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
ART PARIS, GALERIE RABOUAN MOUSSION, PARIS (FRANCE)
2018
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Art Paris, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (France)
2017
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Art Paris, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (France)
2016
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
2015
Hourglasses, SOLO show, Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
2014
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Art Paris, art fair, Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise, Rotterdam (France)
2013
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Variations sur le carré noir, solo show, Slick Brussels, presented by Galerie Dix9 – Hélène Lacharmoise, Brussels (Belgium)
2012
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
YIA art fair (Young International Artists), presented by Transit Gallery (Mechelen), Paris (France)
Slick Brussels art fair, Galerie Dix9, Brussels (Belgium)
2011
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Marrakech Art Fair 2011, Galerie Dix9, Marrakech (Morocco)
2010
Art Brussels, Transit Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Artist Project, solo show, Art Brussels, Brussels (Belgium)
invited by Karen Renders
Show Off 2010, Galerie Dix9, Paris (France)
Kunstvlaai 2010, in partnership with le Brakke Grond,
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
RESIDENCES
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (Nederlands) . 2019-2020
Centre dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, Rouen (France) . 2017-2020
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Belgium) . 2015
Catherine Ahnell Gallery, New York (USA) . 2014
Galerie Paradise, Nantes (France) . 2013
Defibrillator, performance art gallery, Chicago (USA) . 2013
Sagamie, Alma, Québec (Canada) . 2011
Galerie ESPACEPOINTCA, Alma, Québec (CA) . 2011
Résident à la Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux, Bruxelles (BE) . 2011-2015
Gastatelier LeoXIII, Tilburg (NL) . 2010
M’atuvu, Bruxelles (BE) . 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2019
The Gulf Between, CC De Warande, Turnhout (Belgium)
Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden – MACAAL, Marrakech (Morocco)
SORCIÈRE, H2M – espace d’art contemporain Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
VOILÉ.E.S DÉVOILÉ.E.S, Monastère royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
2018
I is an Other/Be the Other, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (Italy)
L’Heure rouge, Dak’art 2018, Dakar Biennale (Senegal)
RÉSONANCE, Le Frac révèle ses dernières acquisitions, Musée des Beaux-Art, Rouen (France)
Décoloniser les corps, Biennale art nOmad, Arnac-la-Poste, Bourges, Paris, Calais (France), Bruxelles (Belgium), Berlin (Germany)
Jaou Tunis 2018 : Pavillon « Feu », Imprimerie Cérès, Tunis (Tunisia)
2017
Art[ ]Collector, La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels (Belgium)
Lieux saints partagés, Musée des confluences – Dar El Bacha, Marrakesh (Morocco)
Reflection, Fashion and Lace Museum, Brussels (Belgium)
Corps de corde, La corderie royale, Rochefort (France)
À gorge sèche après la traversée, Tourinnes-la-Grosse (Belgium)
The Jacques & Miny Defauwes Collection, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (Netherlands)
2016
L’œil du collectionneur- Focus 1, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (France)
Hips Don’t Lie, Centre Pompidou Málaga (Spain)
Sacrée graine, Institut culturel d’islam, Paris (France)
Portrait de l’artiste en alter, Frac Haute-Normandie , Sotteville-lès-Rouen (France)
Jardin d’Orient, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (France)
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement, De leur temps, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne (France)
2015
Espèces d’Espaces, Centre Culturel de Namur, Les Abattoirs de Bomel, Namur (Belgium)
Kitsch ou pas Kitsch ?, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris (France)
A River Depends on its Tributaries, WALSH GALLERY,
Seton Hall University, Newark (USA)
Ailleurs en folie Casablanca, Maison Folie, in the framework of Mons 2015, European Capitale of Culture, Mons (Belgique)
Hybrides 3 Fragmentation, Douai Biennal 2015, Douai (France)
Et autres identités, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy (France)
À contresens de l’oubli, Château de Taurines, Centrès (France)
Contresens- Dissidence-Tolérance, Carla Bayle (France)
2014
Le Maroc contemporain, Institut du monde Arabe, Paris (France)
1914-2014. Cent ans de création au Maroc, MMVI Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat (Morocco) Curated by Mohamed Rachdi
DAK’ART 2014, 11e Biennale de Dakar, Dakar (Senegal)
Simpson & Stone: A Special Selection of African & Oceanic Art from the Allan Stone Collection, Galerie Merton D. Simpson, New York (USA)
Nass Belgica, L’Immigration marocaine en Belgique, curators: A. Madhoune, M. Papazoglou, N. Levy. Le Botanique, Bruxelles (Belgium)
7 residences, Galerie Paradise, Nantes (France)
2013
Personal structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice (collateral event of the Biennale) (Italy)
Rapid Pulse International Festival Performance, Chicago (USA)
Pour des siècles des siècles, Eglise Saint Lou, Namur (Belgium)
Re-Orientation, the second Mediterranean Biennale of Israel, Sakhnin (Israel) Curated by Belu-Simion Fainaru
FireWire, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, curated by Laurent Quenehen, Paris (France)
Spiritualité Contemporaine, Eglise Saint Louis, Hopital de la Sapétriêre, curated by Hugo Faivre, Paris (France)
2012
Sint-Jan, Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent (Belgium) Curated by Jan Hoet and Hans Martens
Le Corps découvert, Institut du monde Arabe, Paris (France)
Unlimited bodies – corps sans limites, presented by the Galerie Dix9 (Paris), Palais d’Iéna, Paris (France)
Ik Man/Vrouw, Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem (Netherlands)
Les Confessions, Eglise de Saint-Loup, Namur, Belgium (Belgium)
The Gatewatcher, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Glissement de terrain, Musée Ianchelevichi, La Louvière (Belgium)
Nader tot U | Closer to Thee, Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium)
Quelle histoire !?, Château de Foix, exhibition of the collection of Abattoirs FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Foix (France)
2011
Carrefour, Mediterranean Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa (Israel)
Anarchisations, AFIAC 2011, Fiac (France) Curated by Jackie-Ruth Meyer (Centre d’art Le Lait), Pascal Pique (les Abattoirs), Patrick Tarres (AFIAC)
Censure(s): baiser la lune, Curated by Florian Gaité, Galerie Bannwarth, Paris (France)
2010
Try To December, Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium)
Confrontaties, de grote vissen eten de kleine, Voormalige Werkhuizen E.Devis N.V, Mechelen (Belgium)
Co-Prosperity Sphere, Version Festival 10, Chicago (USA)
C-TAS, Version Festival 10, Chicago (USA)
NFO XPO, Version Festival 10, Chicago (USA)
Canvas collectie, Collection la RTBF, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bozar), Brussels (Belgium)
[Don’t] Mind the Body, Over 21, Antwerp (Belgium)
10 jaar Roodkapje, centre Roodkapje, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Anti Beeld, a proposition by Arjen Lancel & Anne Bruggenkamp, Arti and Amicitiae, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Masters AKV St. Joost, Breda’s Museum, Breda (Netherlands)
2009
Pleurer et Bonheur, Vienna International Apartment, Brussels (Belgium)
Jeune Création 2009, Le Centquatre, Paris (France)
Turn on, Artivistic 2009, Montréal (Canada)
MAAC’s Window Project by Night, Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux, Brussels (Belgium)
Strange Overtone II, Lokaal 01, Antwerp (Belgium)
Strange Overtone, Artis, Den Bosch (Netherlands)
2008
sos-art.com, L’Avant Rue, Paris Siteparasite, La RTT, Brussels (Belgium)
Houseproud, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
2007
Quartier Excentrique, Minard Schouwburg, Ghent (Belgium)
2006
Glissement de terrain, Galerie sur l’herbe, Nantes (France)
2005
Hip Hip Oral, Alain Le Bras, Nantes (France)
A 4 A5, Ateliers Félix Thomas, Nantes (France)
2004
La forêt, Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper (France)
MISE EN SCÈNE
2019
Ils se jettent dans des endroits où on ne peut les trouver, Vive le sujet | Avignon Festival (official selection), Jardin de la Vierge du lycée Saint-Joseph, Avignon (France)
The Ring of the dove, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin (Germany)
2018
The Ring of the dove, Next Festival, Le Phénix – Scène nationale de Valenciennes, Valenciennes (France)
The Ring of the dove, Centre dramatique national de Normandie-Rouen, Rouen (France)
PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)
2017
Round Round baby Round Round, Festival Artdanthé, Vanves (France)
Round Round baby Round Round, Festival Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille (France)
2016
Round Round baby Round Round, Théatre des deux rives, Rouen (France)
Stupidité contrôlée, objet instantané, Galerie Verbeeck – Van Dyck het Antwerp (Belgium)
2015
Round Round baby Round Round, Merton D, Simpson Gallery, Queer New York International Ary Festival, New York (USA)
Run Run baby Run Run, Carreau du Temple, Jerk Off Festival, Paris (France)
Stupidité contrôlée ou Run Run baby Run Run, Carla Bayle (France)
Quelque chose de Charmant, L’H du Siège – with Le Phénix, National Theater of Valenciennes, Valenciennes (France)
2014
Run Run baby Run Run, Le Botanique, Brussels (Belgium)
Djaj m’qualli, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn (USA)
Grey Zone for performance art, Kingston, NY (USA)
2013
FOKS | LAHLOU, Defibrillator, performance art gallery, Chicago (USA)
Rapid Pulse performance festival Defibrillator, performance art gallery, Chicago (USA)
Devout with the flesh, Trouble Festival, les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (Belgium)
Course en rond sur verre à thé en chaussures à talons rouges, Trouble Festival, les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (Belgium)
Stupidité contrôlée à la pastèque et autres instruments, Trouble Festival,
les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (Belgium)
2012
Stupidité contrôlée (ou pas) à la pastèque, grenade et couscous,
Galerie Dix9, Paris (FR)
2011
Autoportrait à la pomme de terre, Festival “Art des corps”, Lagorce (FR)
Stupidité contrôlée II, Festival “Art des corps”, Lagorce (FR)
C’est Charmant XI, Festival “Art des corps”, Lagorce (FR)
Devout with the Niqab performance, AFIAC 2011, Fiac (FR)
Autoportrait en équilibre à la pastèque, Biennale de Venise, Venise (IT)
Marche à Venise, Biennale de Venise, Venise (IT)
Marathon à Venise, Biennale de Venise, Venise (IT)
Stupidité contrôlée, ou autoportrait en équilibre à la Tajine, Croxhapox, Gent (BE)
C’est Charmant! X ou un moment de solitude, Galerie Bannwarth, Paris (FR)
C’est Charmant! IX, Espacepointca, Alma, Québec (CA)
2010
Henna, ou Hommage à nous mêmes, galerie Transit, Mechelen (BE)
C’est Charmant VII, Galerie Dix9, Paris (FR)
In Stiletto Heels to Allah III, Gallery HudPromo, Odessa (UA)
In Stiletto Heels to Allah II, Ya Gallery, Kiev (UA)
In Stiletto Heels to Allah I, Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev (UA)
Couscous ou Hommage à nous- mêmes II, Show Off, Pont Alexandre III, Paris (FR)
Hommage à nous- mêmes, Voormalige Werkhuizen E.Devis N.V., Mechelen (BE)
C’est Charmant VI, Voormalige Werkhuizen E.Devis N.V., Mechelen (BE)
C’est Charmant IV, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
C’est Charmant V et Hommage à nous-mêmes, Kunstvlaai, en partenariat
avec le Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
C’est Charmant III, Festival Version, Chicago (US)
2009
Stupidité contrôlée, Vienna International Apartment, Bruxelles (BE)
C’est Charmant I & II, Le CentQuatre, Paris (FR)
Course de 8 km en chaussures rouges à talons 11cm entre la Tour
Eiffel et le 104, Le CentQuatre, Paris (FR)
Dar-Koom restaurant, galerie M’atuvu, Bruxelles (BE)
Marche de 30 km en chaussures rouges à talons 11cm entre deux
lieux d’art: de Mechelen (galerie Transit) à (Lokaal 01)(BE)
On en veut du Merveilleux, Art Bruxelles 2009, Bruxelles (BE)
Saut de haies en chaussures rouges à talon sur carrelage mosaïque,
Artis. Den Bosch (NL)
Exploit Sportif en corde à sauté dans escarpins rouges,
Nieuwe Dingen Gastatelier. Tilburg (NL)
The Prayer – Al Fatiha, Siteparasite, La RTT, Bruxelles (BE)
Reys VS Coran, Siteparasite, La RTT, Bruxelles (BE)
La Bonne à l’Enfant, Siteparasite, La RTT, Bruxelles (BE)
2008
Au ralenti en tutu rose, festival Quartier Exxcentrique. Minard Schouwburg, Gent (BE)
Course de 8 km en chaussures rouges à talons sur sol pavé, festival Quartier Exxcentrique. Minard Schouwburg, Gent (BE)
Combat de boxe contre chaussures rouges à talons, festival Quartier Exxcentrique. Minard Schouwburg, Gent (BE)
2005
Organisateur du festival de performances ‘Hip Hip Hip Oral’,
atelier Le Bras, Nantes (FR)
Invités d’honneur: Christelle Familiari et Laurent Moriceau
Je vous aime, atelier Le Bras, Nantes (FR)
2004
Particules privées N° 2, 3 et 4,
Esplanade François Mitterrand, Quimper (FR)
Particules privées N° 1, Galerie de L’école
supérieure des Beaux Arts de Cornouailles, Quimper (FR)
2003
Le supplice de Tantale, ESBAC Quimper (FR)
PRICE / GRANT
Prix du public dans la catégorie performance des Alice Awards 2012,
1st Annual Artistic Landmarks In Contemporary Experience (BE)
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2015
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, In Flanders Fields Museum,
Ypres (BE), Édition la Muette (BE)
2014
Paradis incertain, text by Abdelkader Damani,
Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels (Belgium)
2012
Walking to Lahloutopia, text by Christine Vuegen,
Maison d’Arts Actuels des Chartreux, Brussels (Belgium)
2011
Monographies d’artistes Art 10+1, texts by Colette Dubois,
Pierre Giquel and Christine Vuegen,
la Médiatine, Brussels (Belgium)
Les Talons d’Allah, texts by Marie Moignard, Pierre Giquel
and Émilie Bouvard, éditions Centre Sagamie, Québec (Canada)
2010
Éditions postales, text by Pierre Giquel, 2010.
COLLECTIVE PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (SELECTION)
2016
Portrait de l’artiste en alter, Frac Haute-Normandie , Sotteville-lès-Rouen (France)
Jardin d’Orient, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (France)
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement, De leur temps, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne (France)
2015
Kitsch ou pas Kitsch ?, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris (France)
2014
Le Maroc contemporain, Institut du monde Arabe, Paris (France)
1914-2014. Cent ans de création au Maroc, MMVI Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat (Morocco) Curated by Mohamed Rachdi
DAK’ART 2014, 11e Biennale de Dakar, Dakar (SN)
2013
Personal structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venise (IT)
2012
Sint-Jan, Sint-Baafskathedraal Gent, éditions Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Gand (BE)
Le corps découvert, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (FR)
Anarchisations, Afiac (+ si affinité), Fiac (FR)
2011
Art Brussels 2011, catalogue, 2011, Bruxelles (BE)
2010
[Don’t] Mind the Body, texte de Eva Steynen, Antwerpen (BE)
Art Brussels 2010, catalogue, 2010, Bruxelles (BE)
Masters AKV St. Joost, Breda’s Museum, Breda (NL)
Confrontaties, de grote vissen eten de kleine, Mechelen (BE)
Ten months of guest keeping, MFA AKV/Sint Joost @ Gastatelier Leo XIII, Tilburg (NL)
2009
Jeune Création 2009, le Centquatre, Paris (FR)
WRITTEN PRESS (SELECTION)
2015
La langue des signes, Têtu, 03/2015 (France)
Portfolio Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, ESSE N° 83 (Canada)
Art Brussels 2015, Beaux-Arts magazine, April 2015 (France)
2014
Le Maroc Contemporain, Beaux-Arts magazine, October 2014 (France)
Diptyk n°24, October-November 2014 (Morocco)
Diptyk n°24, June-September 2014 (Morocco)
Le corps découvert, Connaissance des Arts (special edition) (France)
2013
Diptyk n°17, February-March 2013 (Morocco)
2012
<H>ART 98, text by Elke Couchez, p.10 and p.11 (Belgium)
Sint-Jan, ISEL, text by Kaja Verbeke, ISEL 43, p.67 (Belgium)
Le corps découvert, Connaissance des Arts (special edition) (France)
Une cathédrale pour l’art contemporain, La Libre, 12/06/2012, p.48 (Belgium)
Arabische kunst: sluier, boerka, expliciet naakt, De Morgen, 03/04/2012, m.9 (Belgium)
Le corps voilé dévoilé, Connaissance des Arts 704, 05/2012, p.89 (France)
Le corps découvert, Art absolument (special edition), 03/2012, p.18 (France)
Diptyk n°14, February 2012 – April 2012 (Morocco)
2011
Diptyk n°13, p.106, December 2011 – January 2012 (Morocco)
Diptyk n°12, p.96, October – November 2011 (Morocco)
Art Même 53, text by Barbara Roland (Belgium)
Pref Mag, portfolio + interview by Juan Dario Gomez, 2011 (France)
<H>ART 82, p.16 (Belgium)
Revue Zone Occupée n°2, text by Alayn Ouellet, Québec (Canada)
Collect AAA (French text by Christine Vuegen), May 2011- p.017 (Belgium)
Collect AAA (Dutch text by Christine Vuegen), May 2011, p.015 (Belgium)
2010
Revue Laura 9, interview by Frédérique Herbin (France)
Des satellites pour la FIAC, text by Roxana Azimi, le journal des Arts, n°334 (France)
FIAC 2010, un très bon cru, text by Roxana Azimi, Le journal des Arts, n°332 (France)
Dialogues intimes et publics, <H>ART, 21/01/2010, p.11. (Belgium)
2009
De kracht van stiletto’s, interview with Yamila Idrissi,
Brussel Deze Week 1207, p.15 (Belgium)
Le Soir, 25/09/2009, L’actu, p.10 (Belgium)
Cocktail ou autoportrait en société,
Brussel Deze Week, n°1199, p.0 (Belgium)