Soukaina Joual is a Moroccan multi-disciplinary artist. Her various works showcase an interest in how one’s body can translate and reflect various tensions, dynamics and differences. She usually focuses on the body from different perspectives: how it changes, its interaction with personal identity, and how it can also become a site to engage in important ideological debates. Most of the artist’s projects translate her commitment to various forms of presence, and how she trades various shifts between visibility and invisibility, belonging and absence. Joual uses the body as an object of myth, as a stand-in or a metaphor for society, to bring together the body as a historical form with a modernist perspective. She simultaneously blurs the lines between different dualities: public and private space, the individual and the community, the inside and the outside of our bodies; by elaborating proposals that tackle the limits between artistic intervention and everyday civic action.
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