Région Sud Art Prize : Maïssane Alibrahimi

Maïssane Alibrahimi is a Franco-Moroccan artist whose practice interrogates power relations, patriarchal structures, and the narratives and constructions of femininity through a feminist and decolonial perspective.

 

She explores the tensions between softness and resistance, tradition and subversion, mobilising symbolic and domestic materials that she transforms into fragile, ornamented, and evolving structures, at the crossroads of sculpture, installation, and machinic performance. Drawing from the intimacy of the home, she extracts gestures, uses, and micro-rituals. Her work draws on the latencies of objects, ceremonial codes, and domestic images, exploring how the body inscribes its presence in time and space. By activating these ordinary forms, she uncovers fragments and totems of daily life whose banality conceals their symbolic weight.

 

Grounded in assembly, stacking, and the ephemeral, she develops an aesthetic of imbalance and transformation. Her gestures, at once meditative and transgressive, deconstruct normalised forms to reveal the latent violence inscribed in economic, social, familial, and spiritual structures.

 

Attentive to cultural transmissions and contradictory inheritances, she subverts the codes of ornamentation, traditional symbols, and rituals to reconfigure them as critical spaces, strategies of emancipation, displacement, and reappropriation.

 

A graduate of Villa Arson (Nice) and holder of an international MBA in Art from IESA (Paris), she lives and works between Paris and Rabat. In 2024, she was selected for the Arab Artists Now – Feminist Legacies programme led by K-oh-llective and Lina Ramadan. In 2025, she received the Audience Award at the Prix Icart Artistik Rezo and the Jury Prize at the Prix Dauphine pour l’Art Contemporain, alongside curator Juliette Hage.

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