NOMADE-BRUN (2020) Textile Art by Sanaa Mejjadi

Can the tree free itself from its ecosystem? How can we represent the aesthetics of a solid, vulnerable and resilient nature? How do the silences of the trees sound like music and say more than words? My questions are linked to the strength, fragility, vulnerability and resistance of trees. They echo us humans. Our emotional ties and their weight which sometimes chains us. My research is an attempt at liberation by illustrating these questions. In addition to traditional drawing, I use techniques such as weaving, basketry, sculpture, Indian ink, etc. The materials I use are wool, silk, iron threads, Japanese papers, plaster... In addition to these craft techniques from my family heritage, I integrate digital techniques into my research 3D and I print objects. My real or virtual materials have a fragile appearance in common, but once worked, cooked, printed, they become solid, almost imprisoned. I work on the surfaces, I erase them, I hide them. After a multitude of passages and repetitions, camouflaged voices appear which invite reflection. I deliberately conceal the language of words. I avoid titles given to works. Between a poetic appearance and a harsh reality, I leave the viewer free to find their words in the resonance of the frames and the silence of the exhibition. The tree and its branches are only the metaphor for these questions. Art gives me voice and allows me to free myself.

My first contact with graphics was with a gouache palette that my father used to illustrate his lessons, he was a teacher, I was 9 years old. For years I have drawn and manipulated colors. This passion later pushed me towards art studies. After my baccalaureate in visual arts, I studied interior design for 3 years in a school in Casablanca, the city where I was born in 1977. At 22, I joined Ubisoft as a 3D artist. For 10 years, I discovered the magic of 3D and the poetry of Japanese digital universes such as those created by Miyazaki (Nausicaa, Spirited Away). During this period, I made a series of trips to southern Morocco. I confront an encounter that will become the source of my artistic practice: the trees of this arid environment. Their shapes and the apparent disorder of their fluctuations echo my reality. Since then I have tirelessly repeated these motifs in series of drawings, weavings, sculptures and collages. Each new technique is for me a way to reconnect with this nature, its lines, its points.

• Nationality: MOROCCO
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Moroccan Artists