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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Art of the Tranzit zone


The “transit zone” embodies a mental space, a black box, in which Yemoh777s deploys a transdisciplinary practice of text and image. This material constitutes a commentary on the documentation imposed in border areas, responding to the
administrative situation of migrant communities judged as “undocumented”, through a generous, practically compulsive, practice of the document.


The act of writing is illustrated in a daily practice where the notebook, the sheet of paper but also pieces of packaging boxes, tickets, photocopies of identity documents, leaflets, advertisements, offer limitless spaces for creation and expression for critical thinking exploring themes such as structural racism and social inequalities. The large number of documents produced over the years symbolizes a sense of urgency, between the importance of testimony, the catharsis and the need to reconstitute a scattered knowledge.


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, 2024