Yasmine Lahjij

Yasmine Lahjij

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Yasmine Lahjij
Italy and France
Drawing

Yasmine Lahjij (born in 1986, French-Moroccan)
Inspired to a great degree by religious artefacts, rituals as well as pornography, Lahjij anchors her gaze in the creativity of marginal communities encountered on Sex Cams’ platforms, queer parties or traditional ceremonies still in place in Morocco. Referencing spiritual imagery, her drawings focus on universal human experiences like desire, sex, death, and unfold quasi-iconic images and memento mori.
Lahjij pursued a BA in Fine Arts, a BA in Film Studies and a MRes in Visual Arts at
Pantheon-Sorbonne University, as well as a MRes in Arts & Languages at EHESS, Paris. She currently is PhD fellow at EHESS, Paris.
Recent exhibitions include Premio Vittorio Viviani, Nova Milanese (2022), Youmein Festival, Tangier (2022), Prix de dessin Pierre David-Weill, Académie des Beaux-Arts – Institut de France, Paris (2022), 100 artisti a Palazzo Fani, Tuscania (2022). Her work has been published in ManbouZine, issue3, edited by Haven for Artists, Beyrut.
Yasmine currently lives and works in Gorizia, Italy and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.

October 4, 2021
Eleni Tsamadia
November 16, 2022
Sunaina Talreja