Hasnae El Ouarga

Born in Salé, Morocco, in 1993, Hasnae El Ouarga lives and works in Marrakech. A graduate of the École des Arts Visuels de Marrakech, her artistic practice explores the complexity of the photographic image and its capacity to shape memory and perception. By examining the mental images generated through photography, she develops a process of deconstruction that gives form to the unconscious and to the subtle resurfacing of latent memories.

This research has led her toward cyanotype, which has become a central medium in her work. Through this process, nature and artifice converge, revealing traces of an invisible memory. Elements drawn from the natural world—particularly stone—occupy a key place in her practice, acting as conduits for a past that remains both elusive and enduring. In this way, her works evoke memories embedded in matter, suspended between presence and absence.

El Ouarga’s work is included in major public and private collections, notably the Rockefeller and Dior collections, as well as the Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakech and the National Museum of Photography in Rabat.