Current Residents Hallima Imane Zoubai
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Imane Zoubai, Healed, 2022
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Imane Zoubai, Fez in the future, 2018
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Imane Zoubai, "Is our bread ready yet?" performance still. 2022 Photo by Nicolas Wefers documenta 15
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Imane Zoubai, H'zama, installation view. 2021 Photo by Inès Bouallou- EUIP.
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Imane Zoubai, Berza, 2021.
Hallima Imane Zoubai (b. 1998, Fez, Morocco) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of music and landscape in transmission.
A graduate of l’Institut National des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan (2020), she engages with geo-musicology to explore how landscapes can be preserved in cultural knowledge through representation beyond materiality. Her practice spans drawing, sound recordings, prints, and installations, using materials like soil, leather, and wool. She has participated in documenta 15 (Germany, 2022), the La Friche de Belle de Mai residency in Marseille, and performed at FACT Liverpool (UK, 2023). Zoubai’s work emphasizes the poetic relationship between sound, land, and memory.
In the framework of the HIAP residency, I plan to continue my ongoing project “What do we celebrate?”, which explores musical transcriptions and partitions through drawing.
I aim to trace indigenous folk music and re-establish the link between rhythm and its materials. By creating visual landscapes of musical language, I want to connect the visuality and spatiality of musical emotion, using natural materials and traditional crafts. My goal is to explore the connections between Moroccan and Finnish musical traditions and their ties to the surrounding landscape. This project seeks to expand the understanding of music across and within different geographies.