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In Praise Of Slowness, Hicham Gardaf

Pour son exposition Trajectoire(s), FLASH présente In Praise Of Slowness de l’artiste Hicham Gardaf.
In Praise of Slowness prend pour point de départ les vendeurs d’eau de javel de Tanger, dont le métier semble voué à disparaître face aux transformations économiques et technologiques qui reconfigurent la ville. À travers un film, Hicham Gardaf observe leur chaîne d’approvisionnement, leurs déplacements et les chants insistants qui rythment leur présence, composant un paysage à la fois sonore et visuel, marqué par l’endurance.
En s’intéressant aux gestes répétitifs, aux rythmes et aux trajectoires, Hicham met en lumière l’urbanisation accélérée de Tanger et ses effets sur les économies locales. La lenteur devient ici une forme de résistance, une manière d’habiter le temps autrement face à la vitesse du capitalisme contemporain. L’ensemble esquisse ainsi la mémoire d’un monde en mutation, entre disparition et persistance.
Le projet se prolonge par une série photographique qui alterne portraits en noir et blanc des vendeurs et natures mortes colorées des bouteilles de javel.

©️Hicham Gardaf @gardaf, In Praise Of Slowness, 2023

Identité visuelle : @autoroutedusoleil_studio

Avec le précieux soutien de @academiedesbeauxarts et @_la_saif

@villedefontenay @fontenayculturecommune @valdemarne_94 @metropole_du_grand_paris @iledefrance @culture_gouv

#FLASH #Photofestival #FontenaysousBois #FontenayCultureCommune #hichamgardaf

In Praise Of Slowness, Hicham Gardaf

Pour son exposition Trajectoire(s), FLASH présente In Praise Of Slowness de l’artiste Hicham Gardaf.
In Praise of Slowness prend pour point de départ les vendeurs d’eau de javel de Tanger, dont le métier semble voué à disparaître face aux transformations économiques et technologiques qui reconfigurent la ville. À travers un film, Hicham Gardaf observe leur chaîne d’approvisionnement, leurs déplacements et les chants insistants qui rythment leur présence, composant un paysage à la fois sonore et visuel, marqué par l’endurance.
En s’intéressant aux gestes répétitifs, aux rythmes et aux trajectoires, Hicham met en lumière l’urbanisation accélérée de Tanger et ses effets sur les économies locales. La lenteur devient ici une forme de résistance, une manière d’habiter le temps autrement face à la vitesse du capitalisme contemporain. L’ensemble esquisse ainsi la mémoire d’un monde en mutation, entre disparition et persistance.
Le projet se prolonge par une série photographique qui alterne portraits en noir et blanc des vendeurs et natures mortes colorées des bouteilles de javel.

©️Hicham Gardaf @gardaf, In Praise Of Slowness, 2023

Identité visuelle : @autoroutedusoleil_studio

Avec le précieux soutien de @academiedesbeauxarts et @_la_saif

@villedefontenay @fontenayculturecommune @valdemarne_94 @metropole_du_grand_paris @iledefrance @culture_gouv

#FLASH #Photofestival #FontenaysousBois #FontenayCultureCommune #hichamgardaf

In Praise Of Slowness, Hicham Gardaf

Pour son exposition Trajectoire(s), FLASH présente In Praise Of Slowness de l’artiste Hicham Gardaf.
In Praise of Slowness prend pour point de départ les vendeurs d’eau de javel de Tanger, dont le métier semble voué à disparaître face aux transformations économiques et technologiques qui reconfigurent la ville. À travers un film, Hicham Gardaf observe leur chaîne d’approvisionnement, leurs déplacements et les chants insistants qui rythment leur présence, composant un paysage à la fois sonore et visuel, marqué par l’endurance.
En s’intéressant aux gestes répétitifs, aux rythmes et aux trajectoires, Hicham met en lumière l’urbanisation accélérée de Tanger et ses effets sur les économies locales. La lenteur devient ici une forme de résistance, une manière d’habiter le temps autrement face à la vitesse du capitalisme contemporain. L’ensemble esquisse ainsi la mémoire d’un monde en mutation, entre disparition et persistance.
Le projet se prolonge par une série photographique qui alterne portraits en noir et blanc des vendeurs et natures mortes colorées des bouteilles de javel.

©️Hicham Gardaf @gardaf, In Praise Of Slowness, 2023

Identité visuelle : @autoroutedusoleil_studio

Avec le précieux soutien de @academiedesbeauxarts et @_la_saif

@villedefontenay @fontenayculturecommune @valdemarne_94 @metropole_du_grand_paris @iledefrance @culture_gouv

#FLASH #Photofestival #FontenaysousBois #FontenayCultureCommune #hichamgardaf

Continuing the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, Suspended, 1953 (@albers_foundation)
Slide 2: Hicham Gardaf, Lokus, 2015

Continuing the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, Suspended, 1953 (@albers_foundation)
Slide 2: Hicham Gardaf, Lokus, 2015

Continuing the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Hicham Gardaf, La Cité Radieuse, 2015
Slide 2: Josef Albers, Variant / Adobe: «Marble Inlay», 1958, copyright 2014 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Continuing the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Hicham Gardaf, La Cité Radieuse, 2015
Slide 2: Josef Albers, Variant / Adobe: «Marble Inlay», 1958, copyright 2014 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Hicham Gardaf, Positions:

Positions is Photo London’s platform for artists without gallery representation, returning at Olympia in 2026 with curator Maria Sukkar (@mariasukkar) and support from Julius Baer (@bankjuliusbaer). Born in Tangier and based in London, Hicham Gardaf (@gardaf) works across photography and moving image. His series The Red Square (2014–16) considers the visual relationship between painting, photography and architecture through suburban facades on the outskirts of Tangier.

Hicham Gardaf, Positions:

Positions is Photo London’s platform for artists without gallery representation, returning at Olympia in 2026 with curator Maria Sukkar (@mariasukkar) and support from Julius Baer (@bankjuliusbaer). Born in Tangier and based in London, Hicham Gardaf (@gardaf) works across photography and moving image. His series The Red Square (2014–16) considers the visual relationship between painting, photography and architecture through suburban facades on the outskirts of Tangier.

Hicham Gardaf works across photography and moving image, often engaging with ideas of time, place and transformation. He is drawn to sites that carry social or spatial tension, such as landscapes shaped by displacement, urbanisation or quiet forms of resistance. Through slow, observational processes, he explores how environments reflect broader political and temporal conditions. Gardaf approaches these mediums not only as tools for documentation but as spaces for speculation, perception and re-interpretation.

His practice is concerned with what images hold and what they fail to reveal, how they shape memory, suggest presence or absence, and shift meaning over time. Recent screenings and exhibitions include the 74th Berlinale in Berlin, Kettle’s Yard (@kettlesyard) in Cambridge, Frac MÉCA (@fracmeca) in Bordeaux, MACAAL (@macaal_) in Marrakech, and Fondazione MAST (@fondazionemast) in Bologna.

Hicham Gardaf (@gardaf) is currently featured in On Landscape, our digital group project. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

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On Landscape
Digital Group Project
31 March - 28 April, 2026

Artist Portrait by Maja Ngom
Installation View: The Red Square, Hicham Gardaf, 2016

#ContemporaryArt #TaymourGrahneProjects #DubaiArtGallery #OnLandscape

Hicham Gardaf works across photography and moving image, often engaging with ideas of time, place and transformation. He is drawn to sites that carry social or spatial tension, such as landscapes shaped by displacement, urbanisation or quiet forms of resistance. Through slow, observational processes, he explores how environments reflect broader political and temporal conditions. Gardaf approaches these mediums not only as tools for documentation but as spaces for speculation, perception and re-interpretation.

His practice is concerned with what images hold and what they fail to reveal, how they shape memory, suggest presence or absence, and shift meaning over time. Recent screenings and exhibitions include the 74th Berlinale in Berlin, Kettle’s Yard (@kettlesyard) in Cambridge, Frac MÉCA (@fracmeca) in Bordeaux, MACAAL (@macaal_) in Marrakech, and Fondazione MAST (@fondazionemast) in Bologna.

Hicham Gardaf (@gardaf) is currently featured in On Landscape, our digital group project. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

~~~

On Landscape
Digital Group Project
31 March - 28 April, 2026

Artist Portrait by Maja Ngom
Installation View: The Red Square, Hicham Gardaf, 2016

#ContemporaryArt #TaymourGrahneProjects #DubaiArtGallery #OnLandscape

A Camel's Skeleton Scattered along the Red Sea
Al Qahma, SA
2024

A Camel's Skeleton Scattered along the Red Sea
Al Qahma, SA
2024

A Camel's Skeleton Scattered along the Red Sea
Al Qahma, SA
2024

Tanger, 2013

Season of Iris tingitana

1. Claudio Bravo, Irises, 1990
2. Iris tingitana bulb, photographed in Umberto Pasti’s garden for The World of Interiors, 2019
3. Yto Barrada, Iris et Ronces (Iris tingitana), 2007

Season of Iris tingitana

1. Claudio Bravo, Irises, 1990
2. Iris tingitana bulb, photographed in Umberto Pasti’s garden for The World of Interiors, 2019
3. Yto Barrada, Iris et Ronces (Iris tingitana), 2007

Season of Iris tingitana

1. Claudio Bravo, Irises, 1990
2. Iris tingitana bulb, photographed in Umberto Pasti’s garden for The World of Interiors, 2019
3. Yto Barrada, Iris et Ronces (Iris tingitana), 2007

Abdellah Taïa, Paris, 2014.

Continuing my exploration of the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Edward Hopper, Sunlight in a Cafeteria (detail), 1958, 102.1 × 152.7 cm
Slide 2: Ahmad, c-print, 2015, 80 × 80 cm

More of these pairings to follow.

Continuing my exploration of the dialogue between painting and photography.

Slide 1: Edward Hopper, Sunlight in a Cafeteria (detail), 1958, 102.1 × 152.7 cm
Slide 2: Ahmad, c-print, 2015, 80 × 80 cm

More of these pairings to follow.

Christopher Gibbs, Tangier, 2015.

Back in 2014, I began a research project exploring painters who used photography as a tool for painting, and, conversely, photographers influenced by painting. I started my own experiment, searching for found scenes that echoed certain paintings. This process eventually led to the development of The Red Square series. I’ll be sharing more of these pairings here over time.

Slide 1: Nicolas de Staël, Agrigente, 1953, oil on canvas, 73 × 100 cm
Slide 2: Provisional Structure 8, 2015 (detail)

Back in 2014, I began a research project exploring painters who used photography as a tool for painting, and, conversely, photographers influenced by painting. I started my own experiment, searching for found scenes that echoed certain paintings. This process eventually led to the development of The Red Square series. I’ll be sharing more of these pairings here over time.

Slide 1: Nicolas de Staël, Agrigente, 1953, oil on canvas, 73 × 100 cm
Slide 2: Provisional Structure 8, 2015 (detail)