Lina Laraki

Lina Laraki (b. in Casablanca 1991) is a lover and filmmaker who graduated from Central Saint Martins. She nomadically lives and works  in Morocco. Her practice is shaped by different media like film, installation, sound and text. She explores affects and aesthetics related to the cinematographic apparatus by questioning the roles of space within and outside the screen, alongside the unfolding of a narrative and the space of spectatorship. She uses the emotions and sensations brought by cinematic experiences and transmutes them into new forms in order to create a language that starts by observing rather than looking. Using movement as a gesture and a tool, she qualifies her practice as a performative filmmaking, which performs both the body and the geography as sites for sensational sequences to unravel. Ultimately her work tends to create alternate safe spaces where emotional resistances to bigger narratives can occur. Through a process of reconnection to what moves within, through and around ourselves, she formulates an invitation to revisit our parameters and those of the world we live in, eventually reclaiming a more tender and inclusive form of art that reconciles us with the scales of reality.