Marrakech – Moroccan artist-painter Radia Lamrani Karim is presenting a landscape-based installation as part of the collective exhibition “Painting in the Exercise of Art,” currently on view at Loft Art Gallery in Marrakech. The exhibition is part of the citywide program accompanying the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair.
Speaking to Morocco World News at the exhibition’s opening, Lamrani Karim described her participation as a continuation of her long-standing engagement with landscape and perception.
She is presenting works from her series “Every Sunrise Begins With New Eyes,” a project that reflects a renewed approach to seeing and responding to place through painting.
The works explore landscape not only as a physical environment but also as an inner, evolving experience shaped by memory, emotion, and perception, Karim told MWN.
“The landscape becomes something that is felt as much as it is observed,” she explained, emphasizing the subjective dimension that informs her painterly practice.
Invited to create a site-specific installation, Lamrani Karim added that the presentation establishes a dialogue between her painted landscapes and the surrounding space.
By extending painting into a spatial context, the installation invites viewers to experience landscape beyond the limits of the canvas, reinforcing the relationship between image, body, and environment.
The exhibition “Painting in the Exercise of Art” brings together a diverse group of artists working across painting, abstraction, realism, and installation.
It is part of the broader artistic momentum surrounding the 1-54 fair, which has transformed Marrakech into a focal point for contemporary African art during this period.
Also featured in the exhibition is Tunisian visual artist Walid Ardhaoui, represented by Loft Art Gallery, whose practice contributes to the show’s dialogue between different pictorial languages and conceptual approaches.
Together, the participating artists reflect both individual artistic trajectories and shared concerns across the African continent.
Curated by Fatima Zahra, the exhibition was developed over several months and brings together artists from the gallery’s program alongside invited practitioners.
Through its range of forms and sensibilities, “Painting in the Exercise of Art” highlights the continued vitality of contemporary painting and its capacity to expand into immersive and conceptual territories.
