THE STABLES

Born in 1986 in Casablanca, Marocco. Lives and works in Paris, France. 

Discord Venue uncovers one of the paradoxical dynamics of our time - that of evolving contradictions, continuously dividing the same domains. In these dichotomous domains, the belief systems our globalisedworld has been built on are starting to crumble. 

The artist does not consider the breakdown of these connections to be at all symptomatic of the bankruptcy of the neoliberal norm or of the collapse of a modernist utopia. On the contrary, the twilight of neoliberalism can only truly be felt when it has been totally integrated by our bodies. It has not collapsed at all, but instead has reached the apex of its success - its personification and the total takeover of our bodies and imaginations. We do not need to save the forms and institutions of market logic. We have already become its ambassadors. The works use a visual language aimed at kick-starting our intuition. The moment of doubt that partly defines all art makes us question the meaning of these drawings. Achraf Touloub announces this from the start: “You should not look at my works, but live with them”. The artist’s works negate time and go beyond the question of the ‘now’.  

Her work has been exhibited in numerous institutions around the world, including the 2017 Venice Biennale. In 2021, his project "Une fenêtre pour un monde" was selected for the residency programme organisedjointly by Art Explora and the Cité internationale des arts. The artist is represented by the galleries BaronianXippas (Brussels) and PLAN B (Berlin).