Kulte Editions

Primarily intended as a reference work for those in charge of regenerative gardening training courses in Morocco, this ecological gardening guide, written under the direction of Carey Duncan in collaboration with the Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School in Salé (FUNCI), is aimed at both professional gardeners and experienced amateurs.

A richly illustrated book presenting the artistic work and personal stories of cutting-edge fashion designers and artists from Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in the Netherlands.

Soufiane Ababri's sketchbooks.

The story of a meeting between a woman and a man linked by music for one night, in a nuptial dance of bodies and words doomed to failure: an ode to desire by the Franco-Moroccan poetess.

First Arabic translation of Virginie Despentes' cult book King Kong Theory.

The Arabic edition of Ahmed Bouanani's book on the history of Moroccan cinema from 1907 to 1986, published for the first time 33 years after it was written: a hybrid text with prodigious inspiration.

A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.

An experience of observation of contemporary African migratory approaches and new theological movements of Christianity on the continent and in particular in Morocco, through texts of researchers but also various testimonies and documents.

An essay on relational politics (the Arabic edition of Felwine Sarr's book).

The first edition of the Rabat Contemporary Art Biennial— the first all-female Biennial of Contemporary Art—, held in the Moroccan capital and devised by Abdelkader Damani, director of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, from September to December 2019.

“Just painting, without any pattern-pretext nor anecdote”: the first monograph of Moroccan abstract painter Fouad Bellamine.

Artist's book.

A protean project embracing a reflection around the photographic medium and modes of understanding the world (artist's book).

Ahmed Bouanani's book on the history of Moroccan cinema from 1907 to 1986, published for the first time 33 years after it was written: a hybrid text with prodigious inspiration.

Reference monograph.

Ymane Fakhir's project “The Lion's Share” combines sculptures, video, photography, and text, to narrates the story of a bereaved Muslim family and their share of the inheritance. An algebra lesson in which the Moroccan artist examines the place of women in the Muslim family—and beyond.

Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.

At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.

The group exhibition “Fugitive Volumes” at Mohammed VI museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat presents three generations of artists trained at the Tetouan Institut National des Beaux-Arts, and in particular those who have flourished since the 1980s in the orbit of the artist-teacher Faouzi Laatiris, creator of the Volume and Installation workshop at the INBA in 1993. Beyond the documentation on the exhibition, this publication offers a critical and comprehensive archive on the “Ecole de Tetouan” and the history of a contemporary art in Morocco.

This “book-object” prompts the reader to piece together a fragmented narrative comprising texts and pictures to color, to copy, to associate…

With Collective Memory, Mustapha Akrim appropriates one of the most pervasive and widely circulated media of official postcolonial visual culture, the Moroccan dirham. At stake here is how visual representation affects political representation and vice versa.

In Mohammed Laouli's Golf project, residents of a poor neighbourhood nearby Rabat are invited by the artist to play golf in their own streets, thus subverting the signs of power.

New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.

A protean series of works in which artist Fatima Mazmouz thinks her pregnant body as an artistic process and as a place of performance.

Mustapha Akrim's works mixes at once protest, aesthetics, philosophy and politics. The project documented in this catalogue questions labour and education—two notions symbolized by the recurring motif of the fly. As a work in progress, “Iqraa” also refers to the idea that nothing is fixed—neither aesthetically nor politically.

This publication presents a retrospective study on the first contemporary art gallery of Morocco, l'Atelier (The Workshop). It highlights the work of the gallery and help to understand the artistic and cultural dynamics of an era: that of the advent of contemporary Moroccan art on the international scene.

Bellamine's poetic painted photographs.

At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.