Fez — Lisbon is hosting a new collective exhibition titled “Creative Pathways”, presenting a visual dialogue between contemporary artistic practices from Morocco and France. The exhibition opened Wednesday evening at the Art Graça Gallery and will run until February 1.
The show brings together three artists with different backgrounds and artistic trajectories: Moroccan artists Imane Kamal Idrissi and Hajar Mortaji, alongside French artist Lo Delucci.
While their styles, techniques, and references differ, the exhibition is structured around a shared exploration of the creative act and the capacity of visual art to generate dialogue across cultures.
A shared space for diverse visual languages
The exhibition presents itself as a meeting point between abstraction, emotional expression, and reflections on nature and memory. Each artist maintains a clearly defined visual identity, yet their works are presented in a way that encourages resonance rather than contrast, allowing similarities and tensions to emerge organically.
Kamal Idrissi’s works are built through layered compositions that rely on transparency, superposition, and shifting viewpoints. These elements destabilize fixed readings of the image and invite viewers to move visually and mentally through multiple levels of perception.
The timing of the exhibition also coincides roughly with Amazigh New Year, celebrated this week – a context that subtly informs the presence of ancestral Amazigh symbols within some of the works, grounding contemporary abstraction in a broader cultural heritage.
Mortaji’s practice is rooted in abstraction driven by spontaneity and emotional intensity. Her compositions emerge through direct engagement with color, resulting in fragmented surfaces where tension and balance coexist. The visual language prioritizes sensation and contemplation, encouraging viewers to engage intuitively rather than analytically with the works on display.
Delucci’s contribution introduces a distinct chromatic universe centered on blue, a color that structures his visual identity. His works draw on the interplay between horizon, light, and movement, shaped by long-term exposure to maritime environments and architectural training.
Abstraction driven by emotion and spontaneity
Geometric forms and controlled structures interact with fluid color fields, creating compositions that balance freedom and order. His visual references echo landscapes associated with both Morocco and the Atlantic coast, including the blues of the Majorelle Garden and the shoreline near Taghazout.
“Creative Pathways” presents three artistic approaches that remain independent while coexisting within a shared exhibition space. Rather than seeking fusion, the show treats difference as a productive force, positioning contemporary art as a space of encounter, exchange, and openness between cultures.
