Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch (; born 1974 in El-Khnansa, Morocco) is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. Early life and education Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three. She attended the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and graduated from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts. Career Echakhch began her career in 2002. In 2008, she was invited to exhibit her work at Tate Modern in London. In 2011, she participated to the Venice Biennale. She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. , director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism." In December 2015, she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the , GET OUT. Exhibitions 2007: Le Magasin, Grenoble 2008: Tate Modern, London 2009: Fridericianum, Kassel 2009: Latifa Echakhch – Partitures, , Bielefeld. 2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary