{"id":3819,"date":"2026-06-01T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagalerie38.com\/en\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:23:21","slug":"saison-mediterranee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagalerie38.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/saison-mediterranee\/","title":{"rendered":"Saison M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the framework of the Saison M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e 2026<\/strong>, the Foundation of Moroccan Museums, in collaboration with the FRAC Occitanie, presents at the Kasbah Museum in Tangier the monographic exhibition \u201cNe tenir qu\u2019\u00e0 un fil\u201d<\/em> (\u201cHanging by a Thread\u201d), also titled in Arabic, by the visual artist Mohamed Lekleti, a leading figure in contemporary drawing in both France and Morocco. The exhibition will run from 19 June to 30 November 2026, under the curatorship of Mr. Abdelaziz El Idrissi.<\/p>\n

The work of Mohamed Lekleti is distinguished by its remarkable graphic dexterity, his sensitive command of painting, his ability to occupy space, and his use of objects: stuffed birds (in reference to Far\u00eed-ud-D\u00een \u2018Att\u00e2r\u2019s Conference of the Birds<\/em>), ancestral Moroccan property deeds engraved in wood, wigs, African masks, or prayer rugs. His iconographic vocabulary gradually expands and diversifies: hands, threads, dark clouds, breaths, hybrid bodies (notably human\/animal), twin bodies, bodies in tension or imbalance, facial duplications, targets, blurred images of war, circular machines, numbers, mathematical formulas, children, games, as well as migrants and figures of power.<\/p>\n

He addresses issues of crucial importance such as domination, power, and the blindness of perception, portraying\u2014like a psychoanalyst\u2014the constant duality of the human condition, its ambiguities, traumas, and collective nightmares. Everything appears in a state of suspension, as though his entire body of drawings existed in a form of weightlessness, marked by fragility and precariousness, in which neither humans, nor animals, nor objects ever touch the ground. For Mohamed Lekleti, the celestial and the terrestrial intertwine; the eternal and the factual converge; the timeless and the instantaneous, past and present, become one.<\/p>\n

The exhibition at the Kasbah Museum will offer visitors an immersive encounter with the work of Mohamed Lekleti. Site-specific works will resonate with hybrid sculptures and unfold through drawings and paintings without any immediately apparent thematic unity. Nevertheless, most works evoke mechanisms of control or influence.<\/p>\n

Microphones are recurrent motifs in the artist\u2019s work, serving as metaphors for media discourse and its deceptions. One also frequently encounters cartographic representations of the Mediterranean\u2014inevitably geopolitical\u2014which suggest that the tensions present in certain works reflect those experienced by exiles and uprooted individuals, often compelled to leave their homelands and to live in a schizophrenic state (whose symptoms are often akin to the \u201cvoices\u201d heard by patients) between two cultures and two languages.<\/p>\n

In Mohamed Lekleti\u2019s oeuvre, the human figure is often shown holding a thread, itself connected to a non-functional machine, which is in turn manipulated by disembodied hands. Who manipulates whom in these images that resemble visual parables? \u201cAs always in Mohamed Lekleti\u2019s work, everything is a visual riddle. We interpret rather than explain. Such is the world of his dreams.\u201d \u2014 \u00c9ric Mangion, Director of FRAC Occitanie.<\/p>\n

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About the artist<\/h3>\n

Mohamed Lekleti (born in Taza, Morocco; lives and works in Montpellier, France) develops a narrative-driven body of work combining drawing, collage, and textiles in dense, stratified compositions. Drawing, the core of his practice, allows him to explore the complexity of the human condition as well as questions of displacement and identity. Nourished by personal and collective memory, mythologies, and oral traditions such as One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>, his symbolic universe reconfigures the world into a fragmented yet resilient weave.<\/p>\n

Recipient of the Chic Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair Prize (2011), Lekleti is recognized as a major figure in contemporary drawing in both France and Morocco. His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions including MAC Lyon, the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Frissiras Museum, the Mus\u00e9e Paul Val\u00e9ry in S\u00e8te, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lisbon, and the Mohammed VI Museum, as well as at the Fondation Blach\u00e8re, and presented at major international art fairs such as Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, 1.54, Art Paris, Volta Basel, and Drawing Now.<\/p>\n

His works are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts (USA), the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), MAC Lyon, CNAP, FRAC Occitanie, FRAC Picardie, the Fondation Gandur pour l\u2019Art (Geneva), the Mohammed VI Museum (Rabat), Fondation Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Fondation Blach\u00e8re, the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Tunisia\/Switzerland), Bank Al-Maghrib, the A.M. Qattan Foundation (Palestine\/London), the Mus\u00e9e Paul Val\u00e9ry in S\u00e8te, the ES SAADI collection, and MACAAL, among others.<\/p>\n

In 2026, he is invited as part of the Saison M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e 2026, a project led by FRAC Occitanie, to present two monographic exhibitions: one at the Tangier Museum (19 June\u201330 November 2026) and another at FRAC Occitanie (24 September\u201323 December 2026).<\/p>\n

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Practical information<\/h3>\n

\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f \ud83d\udccd Opening and guided tour on Friday 19 June at 6:00 p.m. at the Kasbah Museum in Tangier, in the presence of the artist, Mr. Abdelaziz El Idrissi (curator), and Mr. \u00c9ric Mangion, Director of FRAC Occitanie.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is supported by La Galerie 38 and the Es Saadi Marrakech Resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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