Laila Hida

Laila Hida (born 1983 in Casablanca ) has been building a body of work in which different types of practices intertwine, resulting in installations that blend her own photographs with a variety of archival fragments. Whether created alone or in collaboration with others, her projects continually question the use and fictional power of images in the fabrication of myths about the Orient. Enriched by an uninterrupted flow of images and the many journeys the artist has made since 2016 to the Tighmert Oasis, on the edge of the Sahara, her practice examines how an exotic aesthetic and a tourist identity have been constructed, as well as the knowledge produced and disseminated since the colonial period.