Hicham Berrada

Hicham Berrada
Period: 2013-2014
Profession: Plastician Born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, Hicham Berrada graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) in 2011, then continued his research into the activation of various natural processes at the Studio national des arts contemporains, Le Fresnoy. He has taken part in several group exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, Casablanca and Beirut. In February 2013, his first solo show, conceived with curator Mouna Mekouar, took place at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Modules Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent. Hicham Berrada’s work draws on a dual artistic and scientific culture. In his work, he explores scientific protocols that imitate various natural processes and atmospheric conditions as closely as possible, in an approach close to that of a painter. His project at Villa Medici is to develop his research into elemental matter by creating multiple cosmogonies, like so many small enclosed universes, pieces of nature. This year will also see him collaborate with scientists at the Gran Sasso national laboratory, as he has already done at the Collège de France and the Pecsa laboratory in 2010, as part of the OpenLab project.