Lives and works between New York and Marrakech.
Layadi-Marfouk’s practice explores original modes of representation of ordinarily mischaracterized Muslim identities in an attempt to bring diversity to a Western-centric conversation. Through the construction of a personal visual syntax, and the use of antiquated photographic techniques that span from the 4×5 large-format film camera to halogen lights used in moving pictures in the early twentieth century, Layadi-Marfouk’s images depart from preconceptions embedded in traditional Western imagery too often revolving around anonymous depictions of pain, violence and submission.
Walid Layadi-Marfouk obtained his B.S.E. and certificate in the Program of Visual Arts from Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts (2017).