Latifa Echakhch

Latifa Echakhch (Arabic: لطيفة الشخش; born 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist.

She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.

Latifa Echakhch was born in El-Khnansa, Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three.

[2][3] Alfred Pacquement [fr], director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism.

"[7] In December 2015, she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the Haute École d'art et de design Genève [fr], GET OUT.