Bio
Kaïs Aïouch is a Moroccan visual artist and architect based between Casablanca and Paris. His practice spans across analog photography, moving image and spatial installations, exploring the materiality of the photographic image and its capacity to shape nuanced narratives through transformation. His architectural practice examines the concept of ruins and the aging of buildings, focusing on processes of decay and their layered temporalities.
Kaïs graduated of the ENSA Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture in 2019 and has worked in different architecture and urban design studios such as Studio Paola Viganò and Inessa Hansch Architects. His work has been shown in cultural institutions and museums locally and internationally such as Le 18 Marrakech (2021), Warehouse 421 Abu Dhabi (2024), and Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (2024).
In 2021, he co-founded Kimiā, a Casablanca-based art collective dedicated to the dissemination of experimental practices in film, photography and media art.
Architecture portfolio︎︎︎
Contact
︎ kais.aiouch@gmail.com
On the world-wide-web
☞ Arena
☞ Vimeo
Exhibitions and screenings
2024
– Majorelle Prints, ‘Majorelle Garden: Who Are We?’, Jardin Majorelle’s 100 year anniversary exhibition, Yves Saint Laurent Museum, Marrakech (MA)– Ouled Dreg, ‘Cactus’ group exhibition, Yves Saint Laurent Museum, Marrakech (MA)
– Building Buildings, ‘Network Culture’ group exhibition, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
2023
– River Prints, ‘The Poetics of Water’ group exhibition, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK)– The Cut, Halaloween Philly, Philadelphia (USA), MENA Film Festival, Vancouver (CA); CUVO Videoart Festival, Madrid (ES)
2021
– Memories of a Disappearing Landscape, ‘Mémoire des cactus et mystère des chochenilles’ group exhibition curated by Atelier de l’Observatoire, Fondation Abderrahman Slaoui, Casablanca (MA)– Ghost Studies, ‘DABAPHOTO 6 : Je frotte mon langage contre l’autre’ group exhibition curated by Laila Hida and Jeanne Mercier, Le 18, Marrakech (MA)
Press
– Olivier Rachet, ‘Mémoire des plantes et mystère de l’art’, Diptyk Magazine, September 9, 2021
– Jeanne Mercier, ‘Les fantômes de l’image photographique’, Afrique in visu, June 10, 2021
