Born in 1959 in Paris, Fathiya Tahiri is a graduate of the Special School of Architecture in Paris. In 1986, she returned to Morocco, opened her own office in the capital and participated in several major architectural projects across the country. She did not lose her taste for drawing and sculpture, which she cultivated since her childhood. She first created a line of furniture which she exhibited at the Mohammed V Theater in Rabat, then, in 2002, she was invited to present her very first exhibition of sculptures “Sculptures per il corpo” at the Museo Correr in Venice, where she made herself known. In her paintings, the artist brings out figures at the border of the human and the monstrous, playing on the deep animality of being, in compositions with powerful and controlled colorimetry. Her sculpture, meanwhile, monochromatic, generates hybrid creatures referring with a certain evidence to a mythological world loaded with symbols. Recently, Fathiya Tahiri has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the National Museum of China in Beijing, and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
