ABOUT ME
I am Basma Mansour. Art critic, artist, curator and independent researcher, born in 1999 in El Jadida and based between Morocco and Marseille. My work concerns the way acceleration compresses historical distance to the point of making change almost imperceptible, producing a cultural saturation that masks a structural mutation still underway.
My position, then, is that of a reading that takes the present as the symptom of a future already underway and seeks to name it while it remains illegible.
Marseille, France · El Jadida, Morocco
Basmanssour@gmail.com
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Education
- MA (Research & Creation), Visual Arts and Art Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, 2023–2026
- MA (Research), Art Studies, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, 2021–2023
- DNA (National Diploma of Art), Institut National des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan, 2017–2021
Experience
- Editorial & Artistic Mentoring, Daret Residency, Casablanca, 2025–present
- Art Critic, Diptyk Magazine, Casablanca, 2024–present
- Independent Curator & Critic, 2024–present
- Trend Analyst/Forecaster, Oltmans Van Niekerk, 2023
Exhibitions
- Group, Momentum, Prix Mustaqbal Finalists, Artorium, Casablanca, 2026
- Group, D'un ailleurs qui ne se voit que d'ici, MA2 graduation exhibition, Aix-Marseille Université (cur. Nadiejda Hachami), PAC – Provence Art Contemporain, Marseille, 2025
- Group, Working Class / Second Life, INBA Generation 3rd ed. (cur. Batoul S'Himi & Morad Montazami), Galerie Kent, Tangier, 2022
- Group, Working Class / Second Life, Instituto Cervantes, Tangier, 2022
- Group, Inerta does not exist or maybe it does. Suspender el sentido, Centre d'art moderne de Tétouan, 2019
Curation
- Guest Curator, IGNITE / EXHAUST / HEAL: Hyperstition Méditerranée, 17th Biennale des Écoles d'Art en Méditerranée (BEAM), INBA Tétouan, November 2026
- Curator (with Meryem Sebti), Exister entre les certitudes du monde, Photo Tanger, Villa Harris – Musée de Tanger, 2026
- Curator, Verser le thé dans une tasse encore froide, Aix-Marseille Université, 2024
Residences
- Research & Curatorial Residency, Le 18, Marrakech, 2026
Talks
- Panelist, “The Future of Borders: Re-imagining Mobility for the Next Generation of African Creative Leadership,” LAGO Collective, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, La Mamounia, Marrakech, 2026
Selected Publications
- “Ghurba, Ightirab and the Unfinished Reappropriation of Identity in Contemporary North African Art,” ARTMargins, MIT Press, special issue A Plural Maghreb, forthcoming 2027
- Contributor, Diptyk × 1-54 Marrakech special edition, 2026
- Contributor, Al Mahjar, Diptyk hors-série, 2025
- “Du 'je' vers sa caricature : mythopoétique de l'altérité,” MA thesis, Aix-Marseille Université, 2025
- “Esthétiser le politique, politiser l'esthétique,” MA thesis, Université Jean Monnet, 2023
Projects
- Appel, open-call aggregator for artists (500+ calls), appel.julescartier.com, 2026–present
- Peasant Club, editorial and curatorial platform, Casablanca / Marrakech / Marseille
