Ghariba is a video installation featuring playful portraits of four Moroccan women on various interactive sculptures.

Designed by Meriem Bennani

13 - 18 November | 10am - 9pm
Dubai Design District (d3)

Meriem Bennani was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1988. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, and an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and currently lives and works in New York.

Bennani mixes the languages of reality TV, advertising, documentaries, phone footage, and high-end commercial aesthetics, exploring the potential of storytelling through magic realism and humour. Her work spans video, animation, sculpture, drawing, and installation.

Ghariba is a video installation featuring playful portraits of four Moroccan women on various interactive sculptures. The video portraits within each sculpture draw visual inspiration from beauty salons, massage parlors and children's playgrounds, and appear as footage from reality TV shows, telenovelas or family home movies. Ghariba takes the viewer on an escapist, game-like journey, piecing together a larger narrative, and creating an experience not dissimilar to how we actively synthesize information by scrolling through various media platforms.