Casablanca – Marrakech’s Musée du Patrimoine Immatériel at Jamaâ El Fna is opening its summer program with a new exhibition to the late Moroccan artist Mohamed Nabili, titled “Nabili: la mémoire des signes.”
Organized by the National Foundation of Museums in partnership with Marsam Art Gallery, the exhibition marks a significant moment in Marrakech’s cultural calendar.
Running from June 12 to February 15, 2027, the exhibition offers more than a retrospective. It becomes a reflection on an artistic language deeply rooted in Moroccan culture, where memory and visual expression continuously intersect.
Over the course of his career, Nabili developed a rich and multidimensional practice, moving between painting, ceramics, graphic design, and visual arts. Across these different forms, his work remained guided by a coherent identity shaped by Moroccan heritage.
His visual universe draws from signs, symbols, and forms rooted in Morocco’s intangible cultural heritage, which he reinterprets through a language that feels at once contemporary, intimate, and universal. This includes traditional tattoos, the Tifinagh alphabet, symbolic motifs, and traces of collective memory.
Through this approach, tradition becomes not a fixed reference, but a living vocabulary constantly reimagined.
The exhibition highlights this ongoing dialogue between creation and heritage, revealing how cultural memory can evolve into artistic expression.
It also pays tribute to Nabili’s humanist vision and his commitment to artistic transmission, notably through the foundation “Imaginaire de l’enfant dans les arts plastiques.”
The foundation, created in 2005, is dedicated to introducing children to artistic expression through workshops and mural projects. It works closely with young participants, including in hospital settings in Rabat and Marrakech. Through these initiatives, art becomes a space for creativity, learning, and shared expression.
The foundation, created in 2005, is dedicated to introducing children to artistic expression through workshops and mural projects. It works closely with young participants, including in hospital settings in Rabat and Marrakech. Through these initiatives, art becomes a space for creativity, learning, and shared expression
More than an exhibition, it is an invitation to journey through signs and symbols, and to rediscover Moroccan heritage through the unique lens of Mohamed Nabili.
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