Studio visit2016Single-channel video installation, Color, sound, 6 min.
Studio Visite was created following a visit to the studio of an artist known in Morocco as "the artist who does not want to sell his works," and who works with fragile materials destined to disappear over time. The video echoes the contemporary practice of studio visits, now shaped by a neo-Fordist logic in which the artist's studio becomes a space of promotion and personal branding.
The film aims to highlight the dynamics of the artistic field and the networks that enable visibility, while questioning the place of artistic practices that choose — or not — to position themselves within that field.
Rather than asserting fixed truths or critiques, the video cultivates doubt. It opens a space for reflection on the creative process, studio practice, modes of presentation, discourse in art, art criticism, and the influence of the market.
Throughout the film, the artist and his work remain anonymous — a choice that reflects the art world's tendency to exclude what does not conform to its established norms and codes.