Mehdi-Georges Lahlou

Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (born 1983, Les Sables-d’Olonne, France) is a French-Moroccan visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores identity, gender, representation, memory, and the body. Working across performance, sculpture, photography, drawing, video, and installation, Lahlou examines cultural and religious codes, social attributes, and collective memory through surreal, transgressive, and symbolically layered forms.  Lahlou studied at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole and later completed advanced study at St. Joost Academy in Breda, where he earned a PhD in Fine Arts in 2010. He also completed postgraduate study in art and business in Nantes in 2014. His work often engages the body, space, spirituality, colonial memory, and the archive, using performance, staged imagery, sculptural objects, and hybrid visual symbols to consider how identities are formed, hidden, and transformed across cultural contexts.  His work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou Málaga, the Arab World Institute, the Dakar Biennale, the Havana Biennial, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Botanique Museum, and Galerie Transit. He was artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie from 2019 to 2020 and served as associate artist at CDN Normandie–Rouen from 2017 to 2020. Mehdi-Georges Lahlou lives and works between Paris, Brussels, and Casablanca.