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Yasmine Laraqui (b. 1989, Casablanca) is a curator and visual artist working across photography, painting, and experimental visual forms. Her practice explores the circulation of images, technology, and speculative narratives, questioning how visual languages travel across cultures and geographies.
She earned a BFA from ENSA Paris-Cergy (2012) and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2014). In 2017, she founded DASTHE ART SPACE, an independent platform where she curated solo and group exhibitions in physical and online formats. The initiative later evolved into LY CONNECTS, a production company launched in 2023.
From 2021 to 2023, Laraqui worked as a teaching professional at Collège LaSalle and Studio M, alongside her artistic and curatorial practice.
Her work has been exhibited in internationally, including appearances at the Marrakech Biennale, Photo L.A., 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Spectrum Art Fair (Miami Basel Week), and PhotoMed Festival. Initially shown widely as a photographer, her recent exhibitions have expanded toward painting.
Alongside her visual work, she writes speculative fiction. Her forthcoming novels MENTAL (2025) and IMMERSIONS (2026) explore surveillance, technology, and altered states of consciousness. She will be artist-in-residence at SOMOS ART BERLIN in January–February 2026.
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Although physical geographies seem to echo hostility, the utopian notion of world society has never been as technically reachable as it is through the digital. The internet has enabled a wider map of representations doubled with an instant way of accessing information.
More importantly, the digital revolution made us aware of our contemporaries and their ideas, all around the world and in real-time. For the art world, the internet appears to be the perfect space for experimenting with borderlessness, multicultural appreciation, and finally, fully digital formats. Since everyone produces images, everyone produces information. Paradoxically, because of the accuracy of algorithm targeting, this supposedly widens the spectrum of diverse information and ends up looking like a comfortable bubble of pleasing and like-minded data sharers.
Forty years ago, Flusser wrote that we were entering a Post-historical and dimensionless era through and within which all our information would merge to form a“global brain”. this visionary statement raised sociological implications including mutational notions of cultures and the contemporary relevance of nationality within cyberspace worldwide.
With an interest in new technologies and post-humanism, I delved into the limits of our digitalized identities and started thinking the notion of intimacy on a global virtual stratum- that of an obsolete phenomenon in a post-capitalist world.
While my previous works were centered on identity politics, through staged photographs, immersive installations, performances, videos or the shows I curated, what I currently propose is a revival of methodic pragmatism.
Bridging the pragmatic methodism to critical theories and esthetics research is what I am doing. While I am writing the third part of my saga, I opened my photo studio for commercial use and, a small artists residency to get back to curating shows for internationals who desire to experience Casablanca and establish a dialogue with the local scene.
Yasmine Laraqui
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Disclaimer : regardless of her multidisciplinary practice, Yasmine Laraqui the artist, author, founder is separate from the interior designer with the same name featured on Deco Actuel. Yasmine Laraqui Studio’s expertise revolves around digital culture, algorithmic power, and the architecture of privacy. To ensure you are following the correct archive, please refer to the literary and visual works hosted on this platform."
