Mouna Saboni
Ceux que nos yeux cherchent et ceux avant eux encore #13
Print on pearl paper, acrylic painted text, 8,2 . 11 in, edition of 6 +2 artist proof, light oak frame
© Mouna Saboni. Courtesy Galerie 127
Traverser #1
Pigment print with Arabic text in acrylic, 27,5 . 20,6 in, edition of 6 +2 artist proof, light oak frame
© Mouna Saboni. Courtesy Galerie 127
Born in 1987 in Rennes. Lives and works in Rennes, France.
Presented by Caroline Stein
Traverser
Mouna Saboni’s photographic work deals with the search for identity, which she questions through personal memory intimately linked to the land. Through long-term projects, she questions her own relationship to the land in which she lives and that of individuals to their environment.
Mouna Saboni has been experimenting with new art approaches for several years, combining her photographic work with that of writing.
Like long echoes, diffuse resonances, a distant rustle... Mouna Saboni’s work pierces landscapes and plays with temporalities. In the Traverser series, she deflects representations by chiseling the relief of our imaginations: the words engraved directly on the paper of the print provoke an aesthetic rupture and open an unsuspected page on reality. It is reminiscent of René Char or Raoul Ubac... But Mouna Saboni constantly leads us to other shores and Ce que nos yeux cherchent expresses another dimension. For she digs, she scratches, she rubs and cracks the thickness of memory by revisiting family archives... It is here that her story is revealed, whether tale or memory, it has traveled through us with shards of light. Caroline Stein.
Following a Master’s degree in Social and Solidarity Economy, Mouna Saboni joined the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles from which she graduated in 2012. She has exhibited her work in Mexico, the Netherlands, China and Morocco. In 2012, her work was exhibited at the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles and entered the collection of the Neuflize Foundation for Photography. In 2020, she was awarded the Lagardère Foundation Photography Grant. Her work is backed by the Montresso Foundation in Morocco.
Galerie 127
Galerie 127 opened in 2006 in Marrakech to focus on contemporary photography from the Maghreb. As the first and only gallery in Morocco and the Maghreb exclusively dedicated to photography, Nathalie Locatelli has organised more than 80 exhibitions of Moroccan and international photographers, co-produced photography books and co-created the Nuits Photographiques festival in Essaouira. In June 2020, Galerie 127 will inaugurate its new space in Montreuil.
Galerie 127 : 7, rue Arsène Chéreau — 93100 Montreuil, France & 127, Av. Mohammed V, Gueliz — 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
