Born in 1991 in Agadir, Khadija El Abyad is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice unfolds within a nomadic movement. Her work interrogates the “screens of the body,” a notion where the intimate, the social, and the cultural intertwine. Corporeality is not merely a subject: it is a raw material, a living language through which the artist articulates her engagement with her social becoming.
Her research centres on objects and materials charged with symbolic meaning, particularly those that extend from or emanate from the body, such as hair. She is drawn to domestic feminine practices and their cultural and ritual dimensions, exploring their role in the transmission of knowledge and their potential for emancipation. Matriarchy, as a system of transmission and social organisation, holds a central place in her thinking. It enables her to deconstruct fixed representations of the feminine and to rethink power dynamics, thereby opening spaces where femininity is reimagined beyond dominant frameworks.
Through a multidisciplinary approach combining drawing, installation, and material experimentation rooted in performative acts, Khadija El Abyad diverts and reinterprets these elements of the everyday to reveal their political and poetic scope. Her work, at once radical and sensitive, seeks to disrupt established structures and to open new spaces for reflection on the body, heritage, and systems of representation.