Fez — La So Art Gallery is hosting “Topologies du blanc” (“Topologies of White”) from today to January 31, 2026, bringing together eight artists who all work around one central element: white.
The exhibition looks at the color white as material, language, and territory, not as an empty or neutral space.
The show presents white as something active and dense — appearing as skin, light, architecture, thread, memory, or a kind of living surface.
White as material and space
The works suggest that white can carry tension, rhythm, and stories instead of simply holding other colors in place.
Visitors move through a path where white changes role from piece to piece. In some works it feels open and weightless. In others it becomes heavy, structured, or inward, almost like a state of mind.
Different artists, different uses of white
In Ghany’s suspended figures, white works like a field of reduced gravity. Dark silhouettes hang in a bright space and seem to float, as if the body has been stripped down to a simple vibration in the air.
The photographs by Justin Dingwall show pale bodies with butterflies resting on the skin. Here, white turns into a luminous skin and a fragile territory where change and movement leave visible traces.
With Ange Dakouo, white is thread and weaving. Modular textile pieces form flexible grids made of squares and knots. Some areas tighten, others loosen or fall apart. Across these surfaces, white behaves like a slow flow that gathers, breaks, and reforms.
On the walls, Malika Agueznay places black organic shapes in relief against white surfaces. These forms look like roots, algae, or abstract signs. They rise out of the pale ground and give the wall itself a physical presence, as if something is pushing through it.
Sculptor Ahmed Hajoubi gives white a solid weight. His angular structures and hybrid assemblies in wood, metal, bronze, and wool stand like small pieces of architecture. Works such as “Qorchâl” (2023) treat white as a mass held in balance, with each plane ready to shift but held in place by a quiet tension.
The works of Amina Benbouchta use white in a more discreet, intimate way. Objects and fragments appear lightly from the surface. In her pieces, white becomes a mental space where absence thickens into presence and memory shows up as a soft trace instead of a loud image.
A shared map drawn in white
“Topologies du blanc” brings these different practices together into a kind of shared map. The works are linked by repeated pauses, visual echoes, and silent connections. White is not just a background or a theme; it is the world that all of the pieces inhabit.
By putting painting, photography, sculpture, textile work, and installation in dialogue, La So Art Gallery shows how one color can hold many roles at once. In “Topologies of White,” white is a material to test, a space to cross, and a presence that quietly shapes how every work is seen.
