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) II

sound piece

Re-imagi(nations) II mobilizes two allegories of the journey: the suitcase and the public transportation station. The suitcase is the receptacle and guardian of border stories, shared
in a sound creation in the form of a Dadaist cartography of crossing spaces, a polyphonic story composed of noises, songs, textures, rhythms of the body produced and collected collectively. Border towns are chanted to the rhythm of bus company touts who cries destinations to attract potential customers. Re-imagi(nations) II is a purely sonic poetry mapping of the psycho-geography of a migrant. 

The red suitcase embodies not only travel but is also a tool serving a life on the move, allowing products to be sold and transported easily. It is the starting point of a fiction that Yemoh777s draws from its strong dramaturgical presence reinforced by the color red which embodies the concept of “courage”, a term used by migrant communities to speak of the fluid summoned before each attempt to crossing, not to deny danger and fear, but to transcend them.

Re-imagi(nations) therefore symbolizes a questioning of the above-ground process of building borders, of which the voice and the body remain the fundamental tools for re-appropriation of this process.

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Related exhibitions

  • Re-imagi(nations), Kulte Art Center, Rabat, 2024
  • Re-imagi(nations), Mahal Art Space, Tanger, 2023