WHERE THE SUN LIES Mounir Ayache imagines the possible futures of the Maghreb in Marrakech - FAMILLE ACTUELLE

From 16 October 2026, MCC Gallery opens its new season in Marrakech with Where the Sun Lies, the first solo exhibition by Franco-Moroccan artist Mounir Ayache within the gallery. Between science fiction, memory, heritage, and contemporary technologies, the artist imagines a world where the narratives of the Maghreb are no longer just the traces of a past to be preserved, but the material from which to invent the future.
What if the future could be written from the Maghreb? This is one of the questions that run through Where the Sun Lies, an exhibition conceived by Mounir Ayache as a speculative narrative as much as a plastic experience. Sculptures, images, artefacts, light, and digital devices compose a universe in which different temporalities overlap, deliberately blurring the boundaries between what pertains to the archive, the present, and anticipation.
At the centre of this proposa…