Chourouk Hriech – L’oasis des oiseaux, 2024

Chourouk Hriech’s compositions combine architectural and landscape elements with plant and animal motifs in graphic narratives inspired by the history of places old and new, real and imaginary. Working in black and white, Chourouk Hriech draws what she calls her “landscape stuff”, whether it relates to urban areas or vegetation. With precise lines in Indian ink or gouache, she traces the history of “symbolic cities”, using multiple crosssections, effects of scale and perspective. Whether on paper, on walls or on objects, her works create a hybrid universe where forms, cultures and eras merge, blend or coexist.

Combining drawing, photography, video, fabrics and sound, Chourouk Hriech’s installation is a work of vast poetic mapping. Imaginary migratory birds, symbols of flight and freedom, fly across sweeping landscapes inspired by the artist’s own travels. Her work is a kaleidoscopic vision of the urban and natural environment, reflecting her impressions and sensations. The videos À qui appartiennent les cieux? (“Who does the sky belong to?”) and Céleste (“Heaven”) bring the human body into dialogue with the elements — sky and sea. Poetic and immersive, Chourouk Hriech’s work is a shared world in which the boundaries between animal, plant and human life dissolve.