Hicham Berrada

Other residents

To coincide with the Cities theme week of the Dubai World Expo, Art Explora is exhibiting works by eight internationally renowned French artists. Questioning the place of ecosystems in the urban environment, these works are presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, in Dubai as well as in Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with as many people as possible.

Hicham Berrada

Les Augures mathematics, 2019 - on going

© Adagp, Paris, 2021; Courtesy of the artist and kamelmennour, Paris/London

Works presented in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station, in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and on Jumeirah Road in Dubai. 

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These images are created on computer using equations that mimic the way elements of the natural world (roots, clouds, lichen...) take on, develop or modify their form. These complex, hybrid forms represent "possible worlds", entire ecosystems which, depending on atmospheric circumstances, could one day exist.

Artist biography

Hicham Berrada was born in 1986 in Casablanca (Morocco). He lives and works in Paris and Roubaix (France). With a dual artistic and scientific background, his work combines intuition and knowledge, science and poetry. He explores scientific protocols that imitate various natural processes and/or climatic conditions as closely as possible. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including, among others, at Louvre-Lens (2019), Hayward Gallery (London, 2019), Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, 2019), Punta della Dogana - Collection Pinault (Venice, 2019), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2019 and 2020), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013 and 2017), Abbaye de Maubuisson (2017), in the gardens of the Château de Versailles (2017), Yokohama Triennial (2020), Riga Biennale (2020), Lyon Biennale (2015, 2017 and 2018). Hicham Berrada is represented by galerie kamel mennour (Paris).

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Discover the works of the seven other artists featured in the "Autres habitants" exhibition:

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This project is supported by the French Institute of the United Arab Emirates, JCDecaux, the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and RATP.

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