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 Wafae Ahalouch El Keriasti, this work represents the myth of Aïcha Qandisha, a diabolical female creature of Moroccan folklore, and a certain vision of the future of contemporary women in Morocco. "The installation, which makes use in particular of drawing, painting and text, is created with different materials, notably the carpet, which plays a key role in the installation in reference to its symbolism in Moroccan society," explains the foundation's press release. Also to be discovered is the work "Political Anthropophagy" by Kader Attia, exhibited at the El-Badi Palace. Thanks to a reflection on his hybrid background, this artist explores the repercussions of Western cultural hegemony and capitalism on the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America, and the way in which residual traces of struggle and resistance to colonisation have an effect on the contemporary collective consciousness. "Welcome to Marrakech" is the latest work by Hicham Benohoud, created with the support of the Alliances Foundation and currently exhibited at the historic headquarters of Bank Al-Maghrib, Jemaa El Fna square. Benohoud thus proposes a project that "questions" the position of Marrakech among the most important tourist destinations in the world. Echoing the giant letters that have become the symbol of Hollywood and the American film industry, Benohoud adorns "Marrakech" with his own monumental letters, installed upside down above the El-Badi Palace. Furthermore, the foundation is strengthening the reception facilities for the public at its Al Maaden Monumental Sculpture Park, on the occasion of the Marrakech Art Biennale.