Birth Year
Country of birth
Country of residence
1991
Morocco
Holland
Muhcine Ennou is guided by his intuition and his emotions. He bonds with his models, and gazes at the pictures for hours. "When I feel like I know my surroundings, my intuition can be narrative", In his pictures, we discover a certain tenderness, a feeling of evasion. “My work is a way of express my emotions. My aim is to bring the audience into my world, to make them feel the way I feel."
The act of looking is never neutral since one’s gaze is always influenced by their own discursive disposition. Gazing is, therefore, a performance that orders, shapes and classifies. Without this disposition, you are unable to follow the tacit conventions of a particular discourse, you are not introduced to these conventions, but rather you fall into them and eventually repeat them. They are governed by social rules; a “script” which is already there even though it is not explicit. Taking a picture is the result of being a part of something, in order to attune himself to what Muhcine Ennou calls “the sweet and sour spices of everyday life”. By participating in a specific cultural context, his work capture an embodied sociological narrative, a reaction to a somatic experience of a lived moment.
2020 Blue Notes – Addis Foto Festival “Addis Ababa”
2020 Sometimes – TAC “Eindhoven”
2020 Objectif Renouvelable – La Galerie 38 “Casablanca”
2019 Blue Notes – L’uzine “Casablanca”
2019 New Dutch 2019 – Melkweg Expo “Amsterdam”
2018 No Place Like Home – GPP “Dubai”
2018 Melting Pot – Sea-Foundation “Tilburg”
2018 An open eye on the Arab world – The Institute of the Arab World “Paris”
2017 Public Space – Bab Rouah “Rabat”
2016 COP22 – Foundation CDG Art Gallery “Rabat”
2020 Objectif Renouvelable – La Galerie 38
2018 New Dutch Photography “2019”
2017 Bab Rouah “Espace Public”
2016 Foundation CDG, “COP22”
Renault Morocco
The U.S. Embassy Museum “Rabat"