The Alliances Foundation partners with the Marrakech Art Biennale

The Alliances Foundation continues its support for contemporary creation. This time, it is partnering with the Marrakech Art Biennale, held until 31 March, by supporting the creation of four works by artists from the contemporary Arab art scene. Starting with the work "We Had a Dream" by Mustapha Akrim. Through his work exhibited at the El-Badi Palace, this artist is inspired by Martin Luther King's famous sentence, but uses it in the past tense, so as to provoke a reminiscence of past freedoms and struggles for equality, as well as to incite new efforts in favour of social justice. He brings his nuanced understanding of Morocco's history to bear to move away from the aesthetics established in the post-colonial period. "Hocus Pocus" is the other work presented at the Marrakech Art Biennale, and more precisely at the historic Bank Al-Maghrib Agency in Jemaa El Fna square. Created by Wafa…