Randa Maroufi

Randa Maroufi (1987, Morocco) is a visual artist and director whose practice steers a course between photography, video, and installation art. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Angers, and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and is interested in the staging of the body in public or intimate spaces. Her often political approach invokes ambiguity to question the status of images and the limits of representation.

Her residency project is based on a film about her mother’s first job, as a “factotum” in an Italian-Monégasque family involved in industrial processing of anchovies in the Mediterranean. Through her formal research and experimentation, she will examine the relationships between feminism, colonialism, and social struggles, by interrogating the way in which the creative process and the work itself can support these dynamics and become part of a form of collective resistance.