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Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.

Photographic companion book to the film La controfigura (“The stand-in”) by Rä di Martino: the tale of a cinema troupe in Marrakech trying to shoot the remake of The Swimmer, the 1968 film with Burt Lancaster, based on a short story of the same name by John Cheever.

Box set gathering 2 books / DVDs and one book.

Marocco 1971 offers an intimate, social, and aesthetical portrait of Morocco by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Set during the Summer of 1971, the series also brings back the distinctive spirit of this era.

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.

Liaisons urbaines [Urban Connections] chronicles the development and implementation of an eponymous programme for enhancing public spaces in African cities by operations that combine urban planning and development, design, art and heritage.

This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.

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.

A documentation on the development and reception of Daniel Buren's monumental in situ work in the gardens of the Sacred Heart Church of Casablanca.

Comprehensive monograph.

A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.

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.

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.

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.

A book / DVD on the artist residency in Tetouan in Morocco, with works by Fouad Bouchoucha, Jordi Colomer, Moussa Sarr, Simohammed Fettaka, Mohssin Harraki, Youssef El Yedidi, and Kader Attia.

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.

Reference monograph.

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.

New monograph / artist's book with which Latifa Echakhch proposes an immersion into her visual world, around a series of exhibition views and personal notes and comments.

First monograph.

Djamel Tatah's notebook (photos, texts and drawings).

Djamel Tatah's notebook, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

New monograph based on a recent series of videos and photographs taken in Algeria, through which Zineb Sedira continues to explore issues of cultural identity, displacement and memory (with a retrospective of her work since 1995, three essays, and an interview with H. U. Obrist).

Artist's book: Christoph Keller's weather experiments with a replica of Wilhelm Reich's rainmaking machine in Morocco, in the form of a complex flip-book.

This novel portrays the current evils of the Algerian society with provocative and transgressive humor.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

Artist's book / first comprehensive publication dedicated to Franco-Moroccan artist.

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

Camel Zekri (electroacoustic guitar), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone and trumpets), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar) reach a rare degree of balance between softness and roughness, between lightning and harmony.

The young Algerian contemporary art scene.

The meeting, on the Niger River, between contemporary improvised music and African musical traditions.

Both an introduction to and an extension of the eponymous exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille, this catalogue offers an accessible and sensitive immersion in the richness of Amazigh culture, from the Neolithic to the present day.

Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

A dialogue between two dress sculptors who, each in their own way, have strongly influenced the world of creation, between art and haute couture.

A dialogue between two dress sculptors who, each in their own way, have strongly influenced the world of creation, between art and haute couture.

A vinyl release composed by Alexandre Babel in close collaboration with artist Latifa Echakhch, featuring significant contributions from the Berlin based musicians Rebecca Lenton, Theo Nabicht, Jon Heilbron and Nikki Schlierf. The record is meant to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Swiss pavilion of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.

Architecture of the Territory examines the role that national narratives have in defining the Arab world through the use of architecture and urban planning, through 30 essays, by contributors of each region.

This book commemorates the long collaboration between couturier Azzedine Alaïa and photographer Arthur Elgort, who, working together, shaped the 1980s and actively contributed to the renewal of the representation of women.

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.

The three issues of the periodical charting the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira in the run up to her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), gathered in a box set.

A new approach to psychological suffering, integrating non-Western knowledge with that of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in order to rethink the cultural and linguistic heritages and crossings that constitute a plural universal.

An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.

A collection of thoughts, fragments and poems set in a prose text, between the newspaper, written from day to day, the essay and the autobiography.

Since 2003, Bourouissa has been developing a multidisciplinary practice rooted in social reality, working primarily with representations of a contemporary urban environment. This catalogue accompanies the Franco-Algerian artist's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, which gathers his most significant works to date—including Horse Day, his first project in the USA.

Instruments is the catalogue accompanying Ismaïl Bahri's exhibition of the same title at the Jeu de Paume. It is also his first monograph. Bahri's oeuvre, which dates back to the 2000s, is like a precise and sensitive record of events and experiments; its often mechanical kinetics are particularly evocative of the film process. His experiments are based on the tiny nuances and minute developments that occur when simple things are brought into contact with each other. They demand an acuteness of gaze that leads one to question the limits of perception and the visible.