Moroccan Modernism 1956-1978 focuses on the artists of the Casablanca school and the modernism movement in post-colonial Morocco. For these artists, art was not just confined to aesthetic debates – art was part of a public conversation about decolonization and meant to incite a broader cultural change. I argue for a reading of Moroccan modernism that is deeply rooted in a contemporaneous national context yet that arises from a cosmopolitan foundation in dialogue with transnational anti-colonial intellectual movements. I argue the crux of modernism – particularly the Moroccan experience of modernism – itself.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public. The in-person lecture will be held a the ICA auditorium.
