Contact:
Maryamtouzani@icloud.com
Bio:
MAryam Touzani was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands (1997), and is currently based between Morocco and, the Netherlands. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2023. MAryam explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making through her photography practice. She rather creates than documents. In practice, she deals with themes such as intercultural identity, the desire to belong, and (dis)placements.
She uses her bicultural background (she is a daughter of Moroccan migrants). Her work employs processes that disrupt image-making by playing with layers or merging aspects of imagery and text. It is about dispatching and bringing it back.
MAryam's work was featured at the Melkweg Expo in 2023. That same year, she earned a spot in FOTODOK's Lighthouse talent program, which supports up-and-coming photographers. Additionally, she has been chosen for the FOAM Talent program for 2024-2025.
Contact:
Maryamtouzani@icloud.com
Exhibitions
2024
Group Exhibition at Les Rencontres: the Foundation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz: July 2024 (Arles France)
FOAM: Talent February, 2024 (Amsterdam, NL)
2023
PCP’s Collective: The Perth Centre for Photography (Perth, Australia)
Art The Hague October 2023
ARTY PARTY: PHOTOGRAPHY GRADUATES 2023 Melkweg, september 2023
Graduation show Royal Academy of Art, The Hague july 2023
2022
‘Unfolding territories’ - Group Exhbition, The Grey Space in The Middle (The Hague, NL)
‘Claim Your Space’ - Alien-Mag, NS16 (Tilburg, NL)
Publishing
2023
Maktub - Dummy
2022
Argania, Photobook, self-published (Edition of 20)
2021
I tried to walk seven times to the east, self-published
Features
FOAM Talent Magazine #65
Der Greif Guest Room: “Poetics of Counter-Archives”
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Art-s Cool
Den Haag cenrtaal
Rabobank magazine
Alien-mag
Symposiums/Lectures
2024
Pakhuis de Zwijger: Fotokroniek Young talents presented
2023
Lecture st.joost , Breda
Guest Lecture Royal academy of Arts, The hague
2021
The Undisciplining Photography - Photography and Society and Nederlands Foto museum