M’Barka Amor
Born in 1972
Lives and works in Lyon
Paper becomes a living surface, a space where erased faces, traces, and suspended stories reappear. Through collage, mark-making, and layering, she composes inner landscapes inhabited by symbolic objects and fragments of history. Her works, nourished by multiple references, create dialogues between classical heritage and popular culture without hierarchy or rupture…Read more
For M’barka Amor, drawing is a language of exploration, a free and steady gesture that weaves together memory and the present.
Featured works
Courbure Cornéenne "Regard jeté au sol", 2021
Les Orientales "Palmier", 2021
Courbure Cornéenne "Au loin", 2021
Les Orientales "Danseuse", 2021
Exhibitions
Carte Blanche
"The encounter with the world goes through the hands," Henri Guette recently wrote about Dalila Dalléas Bouzar. Everything in her house starts from the body and the gesture: a line that connects, a color that asserts itself, a space that transforms....Read more
Galerie Hamid Khellafi
Cat People.Des artistes & des chats
The exhibition Le Rêve de l’Autre by M’barka Amor explores imaginaries of exile, identity, and cultural projections between East and West. Through drawings, installations, and narratives, it questions representations of “the other” while highlighting the tensions between....Read more
Centre d’art Madeleine Lambert
La Galerie – Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-SecLe Rêve de l’Autre
The exhibition Cat People. Des artistes & des chats brings together contemporary artists to explore the figure of the cat as a symbolic and cultural motif. Through diverse works, it reflects on independence, domesticity, and the ways humans project emotions and identities onto animals.....Read more
Artworks
Les Orientales "Arabesque", 2021
Courbure Cornéenne "Regard jeté au sol", 2021
Courbure Cornéenne "Au loin", 2021
Les Orientales "Danseuse", 2021
Les Orientales "Palmier", 2021