Yemoh777S


Interdisciplinary artist. My artistic work directly emanates from my personal and social experience as a migrant and a Black individual evolving in Morocco. The journey represents both a concept and a practice in my artistic approach informed by a specific relationship to time, territory and landscapes.


The figure of the artist-activist is at the heart of my work where social art unfolds in an interdisciplinary creative universe. Music, performing arts, sound art, writing, photography and painting are all elements contributing to the same aesthetic and thought system. Marked by a strong ascendant in research, I mobilize questions among others relating to social and climate justice, resilience and care of the living, particularly those which(who) are silenced, and to the invisible world’s esoteric and cosmogony. Through the photographic medium,I aim to document the life of migrant communities in Morocco, among which I myself am an active member. Between documentary and fiction, this photographic corpus illustrates an art deeply rooted in the everyday life.

I am also the founder and the artistic director of The Minority Globe that aims to bridge social divisions using artistic methodology and positive pedagogy.

My work has been shown in personal exhibitions: TroTro Gallery, public space performance for Art Explora (Tanger), Re-imagi(nations),  Kulte Center for Art (2024) and Mahal Art Space (2023), as well as collective exhibitions: Organic Knowledge, LE 18 derb el Ferrane, Marakech (2024), Arts for Advocacy, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, and Villa des Arts, Rabat (2016-17). The collaborative sound piece Collecting Voices, produced by the Calypso36°21 collective, was shown at several festivals such as Traces Migration (Lyon) and Tumultes (Cévenne), as well as at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). His writings and poetry have been published in several publications and magazines such as On Drifting (Calypso 3621, 2021) or the activist platform LeMigrant (2009-14).

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Re-imagi(nations)


Re-imagi(nations) is an ongoing arts and research project that questions narratives and forms of life experienced and invented by the migrant communities in Morocco for their speculative potential in order to imagine collective solutions to current pressing issues on social justice, radical ecology, indigenous and local knowledge.

The film was shoot during a creative workshop organized at the Darna theater (Tangier) in March 2023. The members of the workshop seize the creative prompt to share a story about an object that accompanied them during their journey. If for the artist it is above all a matter of a primar intuition:the necessity of clinging to something – however intangible it may be – in order to survive, the proposition is transformed into a sociological investigation of a material cultyre by definition in movement, recovering different meanings: the object-talisman which offers protection and incarnation, the body-object / the object-body which, in an ontological dimension allows us to situate ourselves and remember those who constitute us and are part of us like so many impossible mournings, the compass object which measures the space and time traveled and reminds us of the direction.

Related exhibitions

  • Planetary design : reclaiming futures, Spore Initiativ, Berlin, 2024
  • Re-imagi(nations), Kulte Art Center, Rabat, 2024
  • Re-imagi(nations), Mahal Art Space, Tanger, 2023