Two founding members of key project spaces in the independent art scene of Morocco Laila Wa Hicham as they call their informal duo since a decade invite you to share their experience and the praxis of thinking and working together as friends and how friendship informed their ways of doing, their style. This conversation will take place during a spontaneously-curated picnic open to everyone to enter the conversation and add from their own experience or just hang out and make new friends.  

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Born in Tangier (Morocco), Hicham Bouzid is a cultural practitioner and independent curator. Since 2010, he collaborated with several art and cultural institutions in Morocco and abroad.

Bouzid is today the co-founder and artistic director of Think Tanger, a cultural platform that explores the urban space and social fabric of Tangier through projects operating at the crossroad of contemporary art, design, participatory research and urban fields, featuring also an atelier for visual art production focusing on printing practices. He recently published MAKAN, a cultural magazine that tackles questions about art, architecture and urbanism.

His curatorial

practice produces various outputs: exhibitions, seminars, talks & podcasts, open studios, prints and books. Bouzid uses all these mediums to reflect on todays dynamics of the Moroccan society, and create new narratives that ties to his immediate surrounding in Tangier and Morocco.

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Laila Hida is a visual artist whose work explores through physical and symbolic spaces the subtle intertwining of vernacular practices with modern dynamics. Her transdisciplinary interventions question the power of the image in the construction of personal fictions and collective imaginaries.

In 2013, she founded LE 18, a multidisciplinary cultural center based in Marrakech that became a shared space and an extension of her practice of collective thinking and experimental formats generated from local contexts. 

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